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(OSHKOSH NATIVE TO SIGN COPIES OF BOOK “LIFE IN THE PAST LANE”)

 

(OSHKOSH, WI) April 21 – Former Leo’s Speedway promoter Leo Galicia, who was recently featured in Green Bay author Joe Verdegan’s book “Life In the Past Lane – a history of stock car racing in Northeast Wisconsin from 1950-1980” – will be at the Oshkosh Speedzone opener Friday April 29.

 

Galicia will join Verdegan as the pair will sign copies of the book at the track underneath the grandstand from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

 

An Oshkosh native, Galicia has a chapter devoted to him in Verdegan’s book. In the book Galicia tells his tales of his own experiences as a racer in the Oshkosh area in the 1950’s and his career as a race promoter at the old Winnebago County Fairgrounds from the 1960’s up until the track’s final race at Jackson and Murdock streets July 12, 1978.

 

West Allis’ Bill Strom would wind up being the final late model champion in the history of Leo’s Speedway. The fairgrounds were relocated close to the highway on the north end of town many years later, where racing, despite some local pressure, would return to Oshkosh in 2001.

 

Galicia was inducted into the Oshkosh Speedzone Hall of Fame in 2008.

 

Racing at the three-eighths mile, clay oval will commence at 7 p.m. Six divisions of racing will be take place weekly. For more information please check out the track’s website oshkoshspeedzone.net. You can call or email at for further information.

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