Orlando Raceway - Then and Now

[ancrdave]

First photo taken of Orlando Raceway on Landstreet Rd. east of U. S. 441 in 1954...
Second photo taken in 2016, 62 years later - same area, but, of course, no race track... lived a lot of good memories there...

[OldSchool+]

Yes. A lot of memories...

See that dirt infield? Every so often somebody that felt wronged would head across there at high speed to even the score. Lots of action at that little joint. Sort of Hialeah/Showtime style. But the classes ran weekly and there were a lot of class-act guys there as well that showed up and ran hard and clean for track championships. Even "clean" was a little rougher, then, actually...

For years you could see turns 3 & 4 in the caterpillar lot as you went by.

May "The Big 'O' " rest in peace.