Gary Reddick
{{Short description|Canadian - American racing driver (1938-2014}}
{{Infobox racing driver
| name = Gary Reddick
| image =
| birth_name = Gary M. Reddick
| birth_date = August 19, 1938
| birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|8|6|1938|8|19|mf=y}}
| current series =
| first year = 1960
| car number = V-3
| championships = 7
| wins = ≈200
| retired = 1981
| titles =
| awards=
| updated=
|last series=Modified racing career}}
Gary Reddick (August 19, 1938 – August 6, 2014) was a Canadian driver of modified stock cars. Equally adept on both dirt and asphalt surfaces, he captured 7 track titles and nearly 200 feature wins in the northeastern United States and the southeastern Canada.{{cite news |date=March 16, 2010 |title=Reddick receives Hall of Fame call |url=https://nny360.newsbank.com/doc/news/12E81C28A25B0370%3Fpdate%3D2010-03-16 |access-date=September 28, 2023 |newspaper=Watertown Daily Times |location=NY |via=NNY360 Archives}}{{cite web|last=Rowe |first=Gary |url= https://superdirtcarseries.com/news/reddick-to-be-honored-at-may-30-ne-hall-inductions/|title= Reddick To Be Honored At May 30 NE Hall Inductions |date=May 9, 2010 |publisher = SuperDIRTcar Series| access-date=September 28, 2023}}
Racing career
Gary Reddick was born in Ottawa, Canada, and as a teenager moved with his family to a farm in Depauville, New York, a small hamlet with just one service station. John Geng, the station's owner, fielded a car numbered Suzy-0 at the Watertown Speedway and eventually added the S-1 and S-2 to the stable. Reddick joined the pit crew in 1959, and by the end of the 1960 season, was driving the S-3. The following season the S-3 became his enduring V-3.
Reddick won his first feature event in 1962 and went on to win track championships at Kingston Speedway, Ontario, and the Brewerton Speedway, Can-Am Speedway (LaFargeville), Evans Mills Speedway, and Watertown Speedway ln New York. He also competed successfully at other east coast tracks, including the Capital City Speedway in Ottawa, Ontario; the Fulton Speedway, Oswego Speedway, and Syracuse Mile in New York; the Martinsville Speedway in Virginia; and Trenton Speedway, New Jersey.{{cite news |date=April 21, 1969 |title=Reddick winner at Fulton track |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/new-york/syracuse/syracuse-post-standard/1969/04-21/page-53/ |accessdate=September 20, 2023 |work=The Post Standard |publisher= |location=Syracuse NY |page=53 |via=NewspaperArchive}}{{cite news |date=September 14, 1970 |title=Reddick is winner of title race |url=https://nny360.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:12A5AC0AEA465C7B@NGPA-NYNNTS-1769B5FE121C049E@2440844-1767DCF3CC081D3D@13?pdate=1970-09-14 |access-date=October 2, 2023 |newspaper=Watertown Daily Times |location=NY |page=14 |via=NNY360 Archives}}{{cite news |date=June 8, 1972 |title=Reddick car headliner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oq4yAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA20&dq=gary+reddick+race+car&article_id=1052,2610691 |accessdate=October 2, 2023 |work=Ottawa Citizen |publisher= |location=Ontario, Canada |page=20 |via=Google Books}}{{cite news |date=May 23, 1977 |title=Reddick Wins |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/new-york/syracuse/syracuse-post-standard/1977/05-23/page-34/ |accessdate=October 2, 2023 |work=The Post Standard |publisher= |location=Syracuse NY |page=34 |via=NewspaperArchive}}
In 1967, Reddick and fellow racer Dutch Hoag were credited with saving the life of veteran racer Billy Blum in a fiery crash at Fulton Speedway. Eleven years later, Reddick was faced with a similar situation at Can-Am Speedway, where he and driver Lew Miller pulled driver Kurt Bronson out of his burning car, although Bronson succumbed to his injuries weeks later.
Reddick was inducted into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame in 2010.
References
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External link
- [http://www.catamountstadium.com/GaryReddick-V3_Watertown_BDanough.jpg Early Gary Reddick stock car]
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Category:Canadian racing drivers
Category:Racing drivers from New York (state)
Category:Sportspeople from Watertown, New York