Dennis Durmas

2019 Inductee, D

Dennis Durmas states that he has been on a snowmobile his whole life. Since his parents owned a Moto-Ski dealership when he was young the statement rings true. On his 18th birthday, he bought a motorcycle to race. A few years later, a friend asked if he was interested...

Charles Wilson

2019 Inductee, W

Charles Wilson’s career had humble beginnings on the tacky dirt of Lawton Speedway in Oklahoma, where a part-time job at a machine shop opened the door to a lifelong love of racing. By the 1986 season, he won a track championship as a rookie in the Street Stock...

Butch Salter

2019 Inductee, S

Butch Salter’s “affair with the Automobile” began while he was in high school and he removed the top from his first car, a 1928 Ford, to make it a roadster. It became his first race car, powered by a four cylinder engine. In the quest for speed, he built a dragster...

Bill Canty

2019 Inductee, C

Bill Canty moved to Colorado with his family in 1960. After finishing school, his early racing experience consisted of drag racing a pickup truck at Rocky Mountain and Mountain View Dragway. After a tour of Vietnam, Bill began his stock car racing career in 1971 when...

Bob Harmsen

2019 Inductee, H

Bob Harmsen will be inducted into the Colorado Motorsports Hall of Fame as one of the 2019 Jerry Van Dyke award recipients. Born in 1943, Bob had an early passion for cars and racing, which turned into a lifelong involvement supporting motorsports through the Harmsen...

2019 The Vickery Family

2019 Inductee, Agajanian Award, V

The Vickery family is this year’s recipient of the J.C. Agajanian Award, which is given in recognition of contributions to Colorado motorsports by a group or organization. Several family generations of the Vickery Racing Team have been involved in participating,...

Historic Memoir by George Thompson

Colorado Motorsports Pioneers

Historic Memoir by George Thompson I was a friend of Dean Dungan Jr. and spent time hanging around with him and his dad and going to midget races at Lakeside Speedway. There was one evening when we had gotten into the pits when we much too young but we were there...

Early Board Tracks of Colorado

Colorado Heritage Race Tracks

DENVER ATHLETIC CLUB Members of the Denver Athletic Club (DAC) proved very susceptible to the bicycle craze of the 1880’s and 1890’s. As early as 1885 they invited spokesmen from the Colorado Wheel Club to address the membership. Soon afterward the DAC formed its own...

William B. Felker

Colorado Motorsports Pioneers

  William B. Felker was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1866. His family moved to Denver when he was 15 and he graduated from the old Denver High School. His father was noted as a Lawyer, Railroad Commissioner, State Senator anda Judge. The Colorado Silver Boom hit...

Tom Vanswearingen

2018 Inductee, V

Tom Vanswearingen received a 2018 Jerry Van Dyke Award for contributions made to Colorado Motorsports during his 50 years of involvement in racing as an event announcer, pit steward, and race official for numerous organizations and race tracks.Tom was the announcer...