Gene Romero learns a new kind of racing at Stardust

May 15, 2019 · remembrance

Mat Oxley’s remembrance of Gene Romero includes a Las Vegas episode from the rider’s early road-racing education. Romero, known for his dirt-track skill, rode at Stardust in 1967 as he learned a different kind of competition.

The episode adds motorcycles to a venue often remembered through sports cars and Indy cars. It also illustrates how a local sports archive benefits from biographies published elsewhere: a few paragraphs in an international motorcycle writer’s account can preserve an important use of a Las Vegas facility. Romero’s story extends far beyond Nevada, but this part of it belongs to Stardust.

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