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Biography
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Lake Speed page on 28 September 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Lake Chambers Speed is an American stock car racing driver. Now retired, he formerly competed in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, scoring one career win in 402 starts.
Lake was named after the best friend of his father, Bob Lake. Lake's father, Leland L. Speed, took office as the Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, in 1948, the same year that he was born. He started his racing career at the age of thirteen racing karts, much to the displeasure of his family. Over the years, Speed won the International Karting Federation (IKF) National Championship six times and in 1978 he won the prestigious Karting World Championship over, among others, future three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna. Speed had been the only American to win the World Karting Championship until 2015 when 14 year-old Logan Sargent of Florida won the KFJ World Karting Championship on September 27th, 2015.
| Type & Item # | Name | Details |
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| Die Cast - Action | Lake Speed 1994 T-Bird | Platinum Series, 1:24 scale, Ford Quality Care #15, production 2,508 |
| Model Kit - Monogram 2779 | Wynn's/K-Mart Oldsmobile Stock Car | 1:24 scale, Lake Speed #83 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme |
| Collector Card - 1992 Maxx 83 | Lake Speed | Phillips 66/TropArtic Pontiac |
| Collector Card - 1996 Upper Deck Road to the Cup RC22 | Lake Speed | #9 Spam Ford Thunderbird |
| Collector Card - 1996 Upper Deck Road to the Cup RC71 | Screamin' Steel: Lake Speed SPAM | #9 Spam Ford Thunderbird |
| Collector Card - 1996 Upper Deck Road to the Cup RC105 | Changin' Gears: Lake Speed | #9 Spam Ford Thunderbird |
