A Better Question is?????

[Darren]

Only 2

Only 2 people miss Sunshine Speedway. I figured this question would get those Bring Back The Track people on here. I still have not heard which org. recieved the profits. OK, I miss it also, now there is 3 of us.

[Kenny Alderman]

I miss Sunshine, The old one, when Leo owned it and Dan Jones ran it. I know it was a long time ago and everything has changed. It was a lot of fun to start 15th - 20 something, pass 10-15 cars and maybe finish in the top 5. With very little sponsor money and doing all the work yourself, the purse money was enough to do it again the following week. none of us knew how good we had it!

[Old Sunshine Fan]

You'd Never Guess Says OSF

Yea, that's right, you'd never guess what track I miss the most.

Clue: Kenny's right about what he said... and if it reopened tonight with races at 7pm, it would NEVER be the same SSS... NEVER-EVER-EVER...

Those were the days and I guess we didn't realize what we had when we had it...SSS was one of a kind... never was one like it, never will be one like it..

I wish Travis Cope (Kid Cope) could have raced there before it was sold.

Gone, but never forgotten (bet you thought that was only for people that died huh?)

OSF:

[georgep]

Lots of them

As a promoter for a travling show in Florida I miss Jax and a great relationship with Roger and Larry. St Augustine as dirt again always nice to my guys and treated them fair. Dead Lakes, a long tow but aging the drivers where happy to go and got taken care of. Not on Florida but Valdosta was great to us during the speed weeks show we put on.
The track is not gone but in it's OLD configuration Palatka always gave us enough dates to make a season.
As a watcher, not a doer
1. Jax
2. OLD Lakland 1/4 mile
3. Golden Gate
4. Tampa Fairgrounds
5. St Augustine as dirt (Nascar killed that track)
6. Volusia as a paved 5/8 for IMSA Super modifieds.
7. Volusia short track dirt. The mini sprint shows where great there.
I moved to Florida in 1970 and the list of Northern tracks would take an hour to type.
THe Modified Reunion that is being held does a LOT to make things better for us transplants.

[Marshall]

Desoto without the "SUPER" Speedway. That used to be one hell of a track.........Sara Mana was a good one too.

[Jimmy McKinley]

Palm Beach Fairgrounds Speedway
Hialeah Speedway
Sunshine Speedway, like Kenny said, when Dan Jones and leo ran the place
DeSoto Memorial Speedway (not "Tom Stimus' DeSoto", or Desoto "Super" Speedway...but DeSoto Memorial Speedway...)
Definitely the Gate (that's Golden Gate Speedway...)
Vero Beach Speedway
Ft. Pierce (Treasure Coast...off of Angle Road)
Melbourne/Eau Gallie
the old Lakeland International Speedway 1/4 mile
the old Citrus County/Inverness before it was reconfigured
Volusia paved 1/2 mile

Yep, I grew up in the '70s and '80s...we won a lot of races at a lot of these tracks over the years....never got to run "our car" at Vero, Ft. Pierce, or Eau Gallie though...that was before we got involved with a race car...

[billy badd]

Palm Beach Fairgrounds for asphalt, and the Old Jax Raceway for dirt. Plus all the others mentioned below. The Deland Drive in Track was also a lot of fun. billy

[ronabneysr]

tracks missed all of them

but guess what i can still lock my office door close my eyes lean back in my big ole office recliner and remember them days and some times you can almost smell the rubber . and then the wife says honey are you ok in there and i wake up====== hiealeah - old holly wood - palm beach ft pearce all them tracks over around vero sun shine golden gate lakeland phillips field all old tracks around tampa === trenton nj fleemington .syrecuse me and wife

use to truck all around united states any were there was a race on week end thats were we got a load to still breathing still racing iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii the only difference between racing back then and racing now is racing ain't that expensive -------winning is expensive