Original Victory Lane Location

It's just so cool that it it lives. So this you sort of see where this old asphalt you sort of see how it does right there. Yeah. So the original victory lane it was a where you ran up an incline and it stopped. So it was an incline and it stopped. It was right in here and it stayed for many many many years. So you know back in the 50s that's where first of all when they first started they didn't have really victory lane. They just did victory out on the racetrack. But eventually when a victory lane came, this was an elevated thing where you would go up and park it and that's where all the the celebration was. Um then you go back into, you know, the 80s and the 90s of Victory Lane, they tore down that and then they built something right in here that had fencing around it and basically you drove up. You didn't climb up anything. You just drove underneath a sign. So you had a per you had a perfect backdrop where the car would be right here and the your your sponsor sign would be right up above it. So that was built right here and that was used until 1997 until it was time to flip-flop to start finish lines. And here's another cool thing too. Um if you