A bit of the valley’s almost-forgotten sporting history resurfaces today and Saturday as dozens of motorcycle racers spin around a short, slick and quick concrete track at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.
“You have to lean in pretty far and stay on the gas,” Jethro Halbert, a professional racer from San Jose, said before Thursday’s practice round in an indoor pavilion. “There’ll be a lot of bumping out there.”
Indoor motorcycle racing was popular in the 1950s and 1960s, when San Jose was Northern California’s mecca of motor sports from go-cart to stock-car racing. But as …Â Details
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