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

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What happens here

The group moves into another office, where the presenter examines a display of broken race car parts labeled 'Close but No Cigar,' which are pieces from races Lake Speed nearly won but failed due to mechanical failure or unexpected incidents. These include a broken valve from the Daytona 500, a piece of deer antler that punctured a tire during a pit stop at Darlington, and a crankshaft snout. Lake Speed explains that this particular Darlington race was won by Davey Allison because of his tire issue.

Goal: View a collection of parts from races that almost resulted in victory.

Tools and materials

  • Broken Valve N/A — Displaying mechanical failure from a race
  • Crankshaft Snout N/A — Displaying mechanical failure from a race
  • Deer Antler Piece N/A — Displaying an unusual incident from a race

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These are the near misses, huh? Oh, close but no cigar. That's funny. Broken parts. So, this like you were going to win a race, but then one of these broke and that's Charlotte fastest car by far. The Coke World 600 92 93. Yeah, 93. It says I was there. I remember that it was something happened. You qualified second round fast or something like that. On the first green flag run, you go from 21st, whatever it was, all the way to third. I mean, running down Nhard and Gordon just catching them coming in. Gordon went in there as Davey. Davey and Gordon. I think Dave and Nhard were leading that nut. Is that like a rib bone? Now that's that doesn't really belong in there. But what that is, can you believe that went through a tractor tire? No. Yes. You'll see tractor right there. But this son of a gun, I had a flat on the tractor. I took it to the tire shop up here and the guy gave that to me when he got back. That's what went down. Part of a deer antler. Wow. Went. How did that drive? And I mean, that's it. That's crazy. That was in there. Anyway, it's one thing to think about this cuz that actually went through the tire, right? that went through a tire under caution. We came in, made a pit stop, and when I they put new tires on the car, and went back out on the racetrack, and that thing went through the right front tire. Wow. Right on the lap coming to the green flag, and I was on the front row late in the race and uh that was ugly. It's a crank snout. Oh, yeah. This is Daytona 1988. Yep. Dayton 500. You were leading the race and that happened. Wow. So you went to the Stavo shop. You talked about them. Davey or Bobby went the 500. Yeah. Yeah. He wouldn't have if this broke. Wow. That's crazy. That's There wouldn't have been the Oh, father son finished. And Noah. And what's that one? Darlington 1983. You like Darlington? leading. Yeah, let him a bunch and twice that happened. Broke the bow with just a few laps to go leading, you know, leading or running second or something right there where

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