Saturday, July 11th, we will be honoring the late great local racer Buddy Cagle! The Cagle family, Debi Cagle Douthit & Clayton Cagle wanted to do something for the racers so they are giving $152.00 to each "A" Feature winner! Thank you Debi & Clayton!
Come on out & learn more about Buddy! I'm sure many of you remember him racing at Tulsa Speedway back in the day!
We will have tables set up with memorabilia & some of his racing pals will be here to help reminisce about the good ol' days!
More about Buddy Cagle:
A native Tulsan, Buddy grew up and was familiar to the Tulsa and surrounding areas most of his life. After graduating from Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Buddy pursued auto racing from 1947 to the early 1980's. He raced different types of cars but mostly midgets in the '40s and '50s to super modified in the '60s and '70s mainly in Tulsa, Muskogee and Oklahoma City and many other tracks in surrounding states.
He raced the big league in the '50s against some of the great drivers of the times. Many of the drivers were also great friends as well as competitors. He passed his rookie test at Indy, even qualified but was bumped from the race. He had a great crash, in what was once recorded as the "spin of all time".
He was a Navy man while racing in the '50s and had to obtain permission to race but was one of the only guys to get permission.
His father owned and operated the Cagle Plumbing Company where Buddy became a master plumber and eventually took over the company. Bud always wanted to give back to the community. He was one of the first people to organize and get local race drivers to give toys to children in hospitals during Christmas. He made and ran a business of mini bikes called Micro-Cycle in the early '60s.
He taught at his old High School, Will Rogers, to students that were learning vocational jobs. Bud also taught welding and other classes at Tulsa Technology. He was a hunter and loved to target shoot and anything else associated with arms. He was one of the great story tellers and if allowed to, he could fill an hour.
- Ryan Merz on Jul 08, 2020
- Article Date: 7/8/2020