Introduction and Shop History

And it felt like God spoke to me and said, "Lake, you going to have to do your own team." One of my favorite parts. We didn't go outside for nothing. Everything was built inside this place cuz I I used to come in here every day, go into my office and walk around in here and get sick to my stomach, you know? It was it was it was rough to look and see all the equipment just sitting here dusty and not being used or whatever. So all this this tape everything right here is how it came off the track. Yep. Heard him say to me, he said, "I can't believe a dang tourist came over here and won the world championship." There's a lot of buried treasures in here and one of them we're going to resurrect. We're going to arm you guys with a little bit of background knowledge so you can better understand what he's talking about while he's talking about it and you're not wondering so much. Before Lake Speed ever got the NASCAR, he was a go-kart wizard. Still is actually. He actually beat Erin Senna at the 1978 World Championship over in France in go-karts with a field full of guys that were going to Formula 1 after that. And he comes back, you know, just a dude from Mississippi. He goes in NASCAR. The building we're about to go in is where Lake operated his own race team from 1987 until 1993. We're out here with Lake Speed and Lake Speed Jr. at his former race shop. I don't we don't really know what happens there now. That's what we're here to find out. We haven't been in there yet. And they're going to show us what it's like and we'll get the the kids perspective on the progression of all of this, too. Sure. When did you build this building? 1966 86. summer of 86. And how old were you when this happened? I've been 14 years old.