Georgia Racing Hall of Famer Tim Flock (center) celebrates in victory lane with his daughter Peggy (left) and his chief mechanic B.B. Blackburn (right) after winning the NASCAR Grand National Motor City 250 at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit, MI on June 29, 1952. Flock will be honored at the sixth annual Lakewood Speedway Reunion at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame in Dawsonville, GA on August 10. Photo courtesy Frances Flock
Fans and organizers of the sixth annual Lakewood Speedway Reunion at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame in Dawsonville, GA on Aug. 10 are preparing to hold the event in honor of one of Georgia’s greatest wheelmen.
Two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tim Flock will be honored as part of the annual event. Flock, a 2002 inductee into the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame, was announced earlier this year as a 2014 inductee into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, NC.
Flock also holds several racing honors, including being named as one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998.
Flock was a long time supporter of the annual Mountain Moonshine Festival in Dawsonville, GA, an event he would attend several times prior to his death in 1998.
Viewed by many historians as the most historic and important racetrack in Georgia history, Lakewood Speedway was built in 1917 around a former water reservoir for the city of Atlanta.
The one-mile dirt oval was the site of several events for NASCAR stock cars, modifieds, Indy Cars, motorcycles and even speedboats on the infield lake.
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Lakewood was one of the most prestigious stops on several national stock car and open wheel circuits over the years. Stock car aces such as Lee Petty, Curtis Turner, Junior Johnson, and Tiny Lund made their way to Lakewood’s victory lane. Indy cars were also regulars at the speedway in its heyday, with drivers such as Ted Horn, Al Keller, Eddie Sachs and Bill Holland taking recording wins
The track hosted its last automobile race in 1979.
Only a small portion of the original track remains today, located just south of downtown Atlanta.
In holding the Lakewood Reunion, the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame hopes to help keep the memory and history of Lakewood Speedway and those that raced there alive. Attendees are asked to bring any personal photos they may have from the speedway to share, and to be scanned into the GRHOF archives.
The cost to attend this year’s Lakewood Reunion is $20 with a meal provided to those who purchase tickets in advance. Those buying tickets the day of the event are not provided a meal.
For more information, visit georgiaracinghof.com, call 706-216-7223, or visit the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame’s Facebook page.
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