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Listen LIVE to Nascar Cup Winner and World Karting Champion Lake Speed, on the Inside Florida Racing Karting Segment broadcast on Monday night May 25!
Lake will come on the air around 8pm ET!
The Karting World Championship began in 1964, and is ruled by the CIK-FIA. It takes place once a year, each year in a different country, and is the kart racing flagship event.
In 1978, a young American driver traveled to Lemans, France, and pulled a huge upset, winning the Karting World Championship race. On that day he bested, among others, the future Formula One star Ayrton Senna. And, he is still the only American to have won the Karting World Championship. That driver was Lake Speed!
Lake won six International Karting Federation championships in his early karting days.
In 1980 after considering racing in other series such as Formula One, CART, and IMSA, and getting advice from current Lowe's Motor Speedway promoter, Humpy Wheeler, Speed chose to go NASCAR racing. According to Speed, "It was the highest mountain to climb."
He had 402 Winston Cup starts from 1980 through 1998.
His lone victory came in the 1988 TransSouth 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, driving an Oldsmobile for his own No. 83 racing team sponsored by Wynn’s. After starting the race eighth, Speed methodically moved his way to the front before eventually taking the lead and running away with the show. Leading 178 of the 367 laps, Speed beat Alan Kulwicki by half a straightaway to secure his first and only NASCAR Winston Cup win. One of the factors in Speed's victory was that he was the only driver who tested the Hoosier tires at Darlington. Where most of his competitors thought that the Hoosiers would blister, Lake and his team knew that they would not.
Video of Lake's Cup Win: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZk4rYJRUPY
He posted 75 top-10 finishes during his Nascar Cup career.
And get this... Lake is still karting today! After leaving Nascar, a friend of his called one week, and asked him if he'd like to race a kart that weekend. Lake realized then how much he missed the fun of karting, and he's never stopped since! He races with the WKA National Dunlop Tires Road Racing Series.
This is the 19th weekly segment on Florida karting. These 20-minute segments will appear on the Inside Florida Racing Show broadcast every Monday night! The IFR show is broadcast from 7pm-9pm, with the Karting Segment starting around 8pmET!
To listen to the show LIVE each Monday night, simple visit the following link and click on the 'Click Here To Listen Live' on the left hand side of the screen: http://www.realracinusa.com/html/insideflorida.shtml
If you miss the show, you can listen to a taped copy, which is usually uploaded (same page linked above) within two days following each broadcast.
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To listen to the previous Karting Segment guests this year, please visit http://www.InsideFloridaRacing.com , and click on the list of available shows.
Jan. 12 - Dustin Chisholm - 2008 Desoto Super Speedway Late Model Champion - Show 69
Jan. 19 - Sam Rodriguez - 3-time TBARA Champion, Promoter Dirt Devil Speedway - Show 70
Jan. 26 - Chad Dokken - 9-time WKA National Champion and former Hooters Pro Cup Driver - Show 71
Feb. 2 - Victor Peters - Multi-time WKA National Champion, TS Racing Engines Head - Show 72
Feb. 9 - Jimmy Sims - President of Florida Karting Association - Show 73
Feb. 17- Seth Adams - 13yo Karting Champion - Show 74 (Feb. 17)
Feb. 23 - Todd Kovi - 2-Cycle Director with the Florida Karting Championship Series - Show 74 (Feb. 23)
Mar. 2 - Robin Green - TBARA Winged Sprint Car Owner, Owner of Heat Racing - Show 75
Mar. 9 - Ryan Hunter-Reay - 2008 Indianapolis 500 Rookie-of-the-year, 3 Indy Car Wins - Show 76
Mar. 16 - Greg Roeback - Flagman, and Karting Series Director for CCMP in Punta Gorda - Show 77
Mar. 23 - Chase Fitzgerald - FKA Champion and Cutting Edge Motorsports Owner - Show 78
March 30 - Joe Ruttman - Nascar Winston Cup and Craftsman Truck Series - Show 79
April 6 - Vinnie Crawford - Florida's Busiest Karting Tech Official - Show 80
April 13 - Darin Coker - Legends Car Racer, Karter and Businessman - Show 81 (In addition, DCKS Karter JD Cordon also joined the show, at about the 1:26 mark)
April 27 - Terry Scampton - President of the Tri City Kart Club, in operation for over 40 years - Show 82
May 4 - Tara Henderson - Florida's reigning "Queen of Karting" - Show 83
May 11 - Eric Filgueiras - One of the US's top young racing prospects - Show 84
May 18 - Phil Harp - Director of the Desoto Champ Kart Series - Show 85
Finally, if anyone would like to provide any comments or input on the shows, please feel free to either email the show directly, or send me a PM. The show staff very much appreciate input, and are happy to talk to anyone.
Mike
Lake will come on the air around 8pm ET!
The Karting World Championship began in 1964, and is ruled by the CIK-FIA. It takes place once a year, each year in a different country, and is the kart racing flagship event.
In 1978, a young American driver traveled to Lemans, France, and pulled a huge upset, winning the Karting World Championship race. On that day he bested, among others, the future Formula One star Ayrton Senna. And, he is still the only American to have won the Karting World Championship. That driver was Lake Speed!
Lake won six International Karting Federation championships in his early karting days.
In 1980 after considering racing in other series such as Formula One, CART, and IMSA, and getting advice from current Lowe's Motor Speedway promoter, Humpy Wheeler, Speed chose to go NASCAR racing. According to Speed, "It was the highest mountain to climb."
He had 402 Winston Cup starts from 1980 through 1998.
His lone victory came in the 1988 TransSouth 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, driving an Oldsmobile for his own No. 83 racing team sponsored by Wynn’s. After starting the race eighth, Speed methodically moved his way to the front before eventually taking the lead and running away with the show. Leading 178 of the 367 laps, Speed beat Alan Kulwicki by half a straightaway to secure his first and only NASCAR Winston Cup win. One of the factors in Speed's victory was that he was the only driver who tested the Hoosier tires at Darlington. Where most of his competitors thought that the Hoosiers would blister, Lake and his team knew that they would not.
Video of Lake's Cup Win: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZk4rYJRUPY
He posted 75 top-10 finishes during his Nascar Cup career.
And get this... Lake is still karting today! After leaving Nascar, a friend of his called one week, and asked him if he'd like to race a kart that weekend. Lake realized then how much he missed the fun of karting, and he's never stopped since! He races with the WKA National Dunlop Tires Road Racing Series.
This is the 19th weekly segment on Florida karting. These 20-minute segments will appear on the Inside Florida Racing Show broadcast every Monday night! The IFR show is broadcast from 7pm-9pm, with the Karting Segment starting around 8pmET!
To listen to the show LIVE each Monday night, simple visit the following link and click on the 'Click Here To Listen Live' on the left hand side of the screen: http://www.realracinusa.com/html/insideflorida.shtml
If you miss the show, you can listen to a taped copy, which is usually uploaded (same page linked above) within two days following each broadcast.
-------------------------------------------------------------
To listen to the previous Karting Segment guests this year, please visit http://www.InsideFloridaRacing.com , and click on the list of available shows.
Jan. 12 - Dustin Chisholm - 2008 Desoto Super Speedway Late Model Champion - Show 69
Jan. 19 - Sam Rodriguez - 3-time TBARA Champion, Promoter Dirt Devil Speedway - Show 70
Jan. 26 - Chad Dokken - 9-time WKA National Champion and former Hooters Pro Cup Driver - Show 71
Feb. 2 - Victor Peters - Multi-time WKA National Champion, TS Racing Engines Head - Show 72
Feb. 9 - Jimmy Sims - President of Florida Karting Association - Show 73
Feb. 17- Seth Adams - 13yo Karting Champion - Show 74 (Feb. 17)
Feb. 23 - Todd Kovi - 2-Cycle Director with the Florida Karting Championship Series - Show 74 (Feb. 23)
Mar. 2 - Robin Green - TBARA Winged Sprint Car Owner, Owner of Heat Racing - Show 75
Mar. 9 - Ryan Hunter-Reay - 2008 Indianapolis 500 Rookie-of-the-year, 3 Indy Car Wins - Show 76
Mar. 16 - Greg Roeback - Flagman, and Karting Series Director for CCMP in Punta Gorda - Show 77
Mar. 23 - Chase Fitzgerald - FKA Champion and Cutting Edge Motorsports Owner - Show 78
March 30 - Joe Ruttman - Nascar Winston Cup and Craftsman Truck Series - Show 79
April 6 - Vinnie Crawford - Florida's Busiest Karting Tech Official - Show 80
April 13 - Darin Coker - Legends Car Racer, Karter and Businessman - Show 81 (In addition, DCKS Karter JD Cordon also joined the show, at about the 1:26 mark)
April 27 - Terry Scampton - President of the Tri City Kart Club, in operation for over 40 years - Show 82
May 4 - Tara Henderson - Florida's reigning "Queen of Karting" - Show 83
May 11 - Eric Filgueiras - One of the US's top young racing prospects - Show 84
May 18 - Phil Harp - Director of the Desoto Champ Kart Series - Show 85
Finally, if anyone would like to provide any comments or input on the shows, please feel free to either email the show directly, or send me a PM. The show staff very much appreciate input, and are happy to talk to anyone.
Mike