RACER: Robin Miller on Eddie Sachs
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- RACER's Robin Miller profiles 1960s Indy 500 star Eddie Sachs who made a name for his blend of personality and driving skill during an incredibly dangerous era.
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I was at the l964 race with Tom and Bob Jenkins who was 16 at the time -- Bob went on to become the "Voice of the 500" -- crazy world ....someone ought to sell tickets.
Love this Robin... Love to hear you talk about these great and brave drivers of the past...! Met Eddie along with Jimmy Bryan and Jimmy Davies back in around 1960, as my parents took me and my brother to either Bass Lake or Lake Schaeffer here in Indiana... What a thrill, as I spent the weekend in a cabin right next door to theirs... Jimmy Bryan helped fix a couple models (car and a boat) that I had brought along with me and had me shooting off Roman candles at night over the lake..! Jimmy was really a great guy, he went out of his way for me....! Eddie was very nice and I can still see him standing in front of me with his baggy khaki colored bathing suit, he looked kind of skinny to me, I think he called me little boy or something when Jimmy introduced him to me... LOL.... Jimmy Davies stayed in the cabin for most of the weekend, hardly saw the guy... What a thrill, something I'll never forget..!
My "Top Five that Should've Won Indy": Eddie Sachs, Gary Bettenhausen, Lloyd Ruby, Jim Hurtubise, & Dan Gurney. The day Sachs was killed was a sad day for Indy fans. Just think what Indy racing would have been like had Eddie still been around? Thanks Robin for your decades of dedication to auto racing reporting. I look forward to the 100th running in May at Indy.
My mother Bettie was married to Eddy Sachs in the fifties. They had a daughter named Katherine Debra, and my Father was Gordon Reid. Which died in 1952 at Dayton Ohio Speedway. I was just 16 days old. His mother’s name was Hazel Reid . He left behind three other daughters too. I don’t remember Eddy Sacks, but I do remember watching the race and seeing the crash with the flames and saw him go right into it. Never wii forget that race. I’m 67 years old now and I am KAREN, the youngest., With three older sibling , there was the oldest, Marsha, Susan and BETTY .
So sad about your Dad's death.
He was so young!
i'll never forget back in 1964 i was 14 here in upstate n.y when my cousin brought the n.y. daily news to my house the day after the 64 race and the whole back page was a picture of that awful crash, i'll never forget that!
Great tribute to one of the best driver's never to win the 500. Can't imagine what it must have been like when his death was announced in the '64 race. You can tell that he was well loved considering the eulogy Sid Collins gave for him during the IMS Radio broadcast.
This is when i was starting to get into racing. A foster parent was a local race driver (Fremont Speedway HOF) always went to Indy. I remember him not being himself when he got home.
I enjoyed this, thanks. This was my era (as a young kid in the early 60s).
Eddie drove for my uncle in '63 and '64. ('63 was the year Eddie hit the wall, lost a wheel and it went completely around the track without stopping, or being hit, and came back to his car.) My uncle was the 'S' of 'MVS Racing'. Richard Sommers. He wrote a book about Eddie. "Eddie Called me Boss" Warren Publishing Co. 1979. All of my adult family was at the race that day. My uncle was in the pits. I was 11 at the time and all of my sisters and cousins were at my aunt and uncle's house, like we were every year, waiting for all of our folks to come home. As for my family, it's one of those moments that is etched in our memories as to where we were and what we were doing when the news came across the radio.
I love this series.Please continue to do this.
There's a legend that, allegedly, he threw that race in 61. He had always stated that Indy was everything and he swore that the day he won the 500, the first thing he would tell the interviewers in Victory Lane was that he was retiring and that he would. It's alleged that he realized what the implications were if he won that day and that he wasn't ready to hang up his helmet yet, so he pitted to have the tire changed.
That's silly.
Regarding what Foyt said about Paul Goldsmith, he is backed up by Smokey Yunick, who said Goldsmith was the best driver he ever had.
Wow....Mrs. Karen Thomas. OMG, sorry for the loss of your father Gordon Reid. He was a bit before my time, but from what I've read he was a charger. Had he lived I imagine he would of won an Indy 500. He was a heck of a racer. Even though its been 68 years, sorry for your loss. He is not forgotten.
Thank You Mr. Miller..
I met Eddie Sachs, my hero, in the pits following the Milwaukee Mile the summer before his death. He let me sit in his car. I think he liked kids. What a searing loss to world.
Could you do a feature on Pat O'connor?
Another great video.How about one on Larry Rice and/or Rich Vogler?
didn't know much about eddie til i read black noon, sounds like a great guy. he had to grow into being a talented racing driver, but once he did, 8 usac wins.
could you do a feature on Pat O'connor?
Thanks. Great video
My father was going to work one morning and saw a man walking down the road and he had just passed a car parked off the side of the road so he stopped to pick the man up it was Eddie sacks and had run out of gas so Dad took him to a gas station and gets a can of gas and give him a ride back to his car make sure his car fired up and Eddie invited my father to come to his restaurant and have dinner on him and about 2 weeks later we did just that I remember Eddie was really funny telling jokes all the he had all of us kids laughing I think he had two kids one was when was small just a toddler I was 9 years old I believe but I remember well the restaurant was an old Mill or some sort had a water wheel that kind of thing beautiful place I don't remember where it was now we went there pretty often and we were always given a warm welcome by his whole family unfortunately the year he died the year I learned about death I had a couple of favorite drivers Eddie was one Fireball Robert was the other and my grandfather they all passed away within a few months of one another and really tore me up anyway that's my Eddie sacks story he was a good friend to my dad and my mother got along well with Eddie's wife we would listen to the Indy race on the radio and I would pull for him like my life depended on it those were different times
I have to ask ever heard of Bobby Marvin ,, he was killed at langhorne April 7,1963
He’s with Eddie now…
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How many Eddies in a sack?🤔
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Could you do a feature on Pat O'connor?