by JD Green | Jul 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
As a kid growing up at Riverside Stadium and Lakeside Speedway one of my favorite drivers was Bill “Candyman” Curtis. Candyman would throw out candy to the kids. I remember him standing in the flagstand at Riverside Stadium and kids everywhere running to get some of...
by JD Green | Jul 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
What a great night of racing for our 12th week! Compliments everywhere on this race night starting with beautiful weather, 97 racecars in competition, visitors from several states, totally awesome racing, kids winning bicycles and fishing poles, packed grandstand,...
by JD Green | Jun 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
“I get all these?” said the boy to I-35 Speedway Concession Cashier Cheryl as she gave him his bubble gum he just purchased. This same statement could be said from the race fans in attendance at I-35 Speedway as 116 racecars came to compete. The same could be said...
by JD Green | Feb 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
What a great Saturday night this past weekend. We attended the USRA Banquet and had a great time, visited with some of the greatest people in racing, and then we left and went to the Central Auto Racing Boosters 23rd Annual Bowlathon. What was discovered on this...
by JD Green | Dec 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Throughout the history of racing there has been an on again off again infatuation with asphalt racing. Look back over the last 50 years of racing and look at how most tracks were dirt and then became asphalt and then went back to dirt. Fifty years ago takes us to...
by JD Green | Nov 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Linked below is the letter and the 2014 Annual Financial Statement sent to me from the C.A.R.B. Hall of Fame and Museum Board in response to my first letter. HOF first response HOF first response...
by JD Green | Sep 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
As we left 2012, Lakeside Speedway was for sale and work was happening for the track to be sold to Mike and Kyle Johnson and Don and Donna Marrs. Press releases were written and rumors were flying. The initial rumor was Marrs were putting up 80 percent of the money...
by JD Green | Jun 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Thank you Mother Nature. Yes we got to race last weekend and we got in two makeup features from May 16, and we had a huge field of cars (124) and a grandstand full of race fans. The race fans definitely received their money’s worth with 19 Heats, 2 B features, and 9...
by JD Green | May 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Week seven’s recap could be called “Racing the Rain”. A headline on an internet site was “I-35 Speedway beats Mother Nature”. We found we don’t beat Mother Nature but we want to thank her for allowing us to get the races completed. Per most people’s radar...
by JD Green | Apr 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Week 5 starts with the weather again being a pain. Saturday, we get to the track at noon, and owner’s Mike and Kyle Johnson are already here. When we left Platte City, the sky was dark to the west but light to the east. There were no radar targets until we left. As we...
