GC40V61 American Race Tracks Series #4 (Traditional Cache) in Colorado, United States created by eye found it 2011

GC40V61 ▼

A cache by eye found it 2011 Message this owner

Hidden : 11/5/2012

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This is the fourth of a series of American Race Tracks in which some are defunct and some are still going.

American Race Tracks Series #4

Lakeside Speedway
Denver, Colorado

N 39 46.581 W 105 3.267

This is the fourth of a series of American Race Tracks in which some are defunct and some are still going. I have spent a great deal of my adult life racing cars of all types and so this will be fun revisiting the racetracks of yesteryear. Be sure to add any photos or comments if you have experienced them too.

From the late 1930s through 1988, Lakeside Amusement Park operated Lakeside Speedway on the park grounds. The auto racetrack was a 1/5 mile oval and featured races of three car classes sponsored by CARC: stock, limited modified and fully modified. The race track was built on the site of the park's original baseball diamond and incorporated the original stands into the new use. Look to the North and West a little to see the degrading grandstands and what little of track remains today.

My parents used to take me to Lakeside Speedway every Sunday night during the late 50’s to watch the jalopy races as I called them. I was hooked on the noise of those screaming motors and the smells of burning race fuel and rubber.
I remember all the wrecks at a thrill a minute.

The placement of stands in turn one eventually proved to be the undoing of racing programs at the speedway. The heavy chain link fence protecting these stands were no match for the bigger and heavier race cars that had evolved through the years, and when a car got into the fence, during a CARC program in 1988, scattering debris through the crowd, a spectator life was lost.

There is a parking lot just south of the cache area. Use lots of stealth.
Please put back very carefully so it won’t get muggled

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)