Went to a Fight and a Race Broke Out!
Stock Car Racing History
I was running at Putnam County Speedway in Florida one time and was sitting at the entrance to the track waiting for my feature to start. I had a great view of the field and two drivers were rubbing and racing for many laps. They finally started really tearing each others cars up and one got away from the other and won his feature. As he climbed out of his car for the victory flag photo opp the other one skidded to a stop right in front of the flag stand and they went to thumping on each other really good. The announcer asked for "Security to the flag stand" and as the off duty deputy ,in uniform ran up to break it up he grabbed one guy by the shoulder who wheeled and without looking decked the sheriff's deputy on the spot. He then realized what he had done and threw up his hands and then the other guy promptly sucker punched him......oh the thrill of dirt racing in the south. lol