by: Hope Player
Vicki Wood became The Fastest Woman on the Beach in 1960, when she set the track record for the fastest one-way run in the history of racing on Daytona Beach, and that record of 150.375 miles per hour will never be broken. Last Saturday, some of the beach drivers gathered at the restaurant located at the sight of the north turn of the beach course. The aptly named North Turn Restaurant has been a fixture in Ponce Inlet, FL since the days when the racers slid through the sand to reach the paved part of the track and run south on A1A. Pictures of drivers, cars, and wrecks cover the wooden walls and grainy black-and-white videos of the races play on screens around the restaurant.
