Originally Posted by TEI PR:
BE THE FIRST FAMILY FOR THIS FRIDAY'S "Night Before The State Fair Race" featuring the 410's of the POWRi WAR Sprints + 3 other classes. It's the kickoff to a huge racing weekend in Central Illinois.
LIKE & COMMENT on the Facebook post at https://www.facebook.com/LincolnILSp...type=3&theater (Look for the pic below) for your chance to be the Lincoln Speedway First Family. Don't forget to SHARE as well to help spread the word. Winner will receive a four pack of tickets to this Friday's event. The lucky winner will be announced Thursday night!
The image of Abe Lincoln on the Lincoln promo poster seems kind of odd. I wonder if Abe would've been a race fan, had he lived today? I think he might have been something of a badass, had he been a driver. For one, given modern food and nutrition, he might have reached 6'2 or 6'3". And just imagine Abe walking thru the pits, in a black firesuit, with that beard, and the stovepipe hat on? I can just hear a race announcer now: Now pushing off in the #16 Ford powered Maxim chassis, out of Springfield, Illinois, it's the Railsplitter, Abe Lincoln.
Or perhaps he would have been more of a crew chief, or car builder. He did invent and patent a device for lifting riverboats over sandbars. Had he come along in our day, Abe might've come up with some crazy new race suspension.
And Abe did seem to prefer Speed. I mean, he fired General George McCleland for "having a case of the slows."
At any rate, I am looking forward to four score and twenty laps tomorrow. (Or would that actually be five score?)