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Building the Race Shop

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Lake Speed Shows Us His Backyard 1980s NASCAR Race Shop! (AND The Go Kart That Beat Ayrton Senna)

What happens here

The video shows the exterior of the race shop, a long, white industrial building, which was built in 1986. The presenter highlights that the parking lot used to be paved for pit stop practice. Lake Speed shares anecdotes about building the shop on his own property, inspired by Junior Johnson's similar setup, clearing the land with a bulldozer and ultimately leading to his own race team when a sponsor deal unexpectedly emerged. The group then enters the office section of the building.

Goal: Understand the origins and construction of the race shop.

Tools and materials

  • Bulldozer Caterpillar — Clearing the land for the race shop

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myself, you know, we already have the land. Don't have to go buy any property. All we got to do is build a building. So, work for Junior. Did the pit stop practice bother your horses? No, they didn't understand anything. They're just going to deal with it. They got used to it. Once they get fed, they're happy. Thank you. No problem. [Music] Come in. Here's kind of a lot of history all around. This display booth thing here is basically two careers. You got the carding career on the right, most of it, and the left hand side the stock car stuff. What is some of this stuff? Was that your jacket and the the world championship jacket? Uh, one of the years, not the year I won, but I went over to Europe and run that race six times as Aaron Senno was rising through F1. Did you like seeing that? Cuz every time you heard about him, you're like, I beat that guy before, you know? After I got involved in stock cars, I never thought about anything else really. It was total focus. I couldn't I had no idea what happened to any of those people. I did know when I was finished the last year I ran with the cars, I knew that there was at least six guys that I raced against in Europe that within 18 to 24 months were driving Formula 1 cars. And I talked to one of them in particular, uh, it might have been the year I won the world championships or the year before. And, uh, Elio D'Angelus, and I asked Elio, I said, "What's it like driving a Formula 1?" And he looked at me real straight face and said, "Just a big go-kart." [Music] Okay,

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