The 2024 running motorsports thread

I'm stunned Orange Show still has weekly racing. Dad took us there for the first time around 1966 and I remember thinking how old it looked then (a converted football stadium from just after World War II, I believe). I'm certain everything gets renovated over time, but racetracks rarely make enough money to do much more than repairs and resurfacing.

While Indianapolis, Daytona and Watkins Glen/Riverside were the pinnacles of the sport, everybody started somewhere like Orange Show, Ascot Park or Irwindale. And the road courses, oval tracks and drag strips of Southern California were as fertile a ground as any for hundreds of drivers, mechanics and engineers.

 

Still good for festivals and falling in love, according to Lizzy McAlpine. (My daughter and most of her friends love Lizzy.)

 

That's a killer song, literally the last verse. Last time I was at the Orange Show Speedway, I think I was 9. At the time, I had a crush on a girl named Pami Szymanski but we moved away before fifth grade. The last time I was in Redlands, I went to the city library and asked to see the high school yearbook just to see what she looked like at 18. As pretty as I remembered. Hope she has had a wonderful life and didn't end up with her heart broken at the Orange Show Speedway.

I will check out more Lizzy.