By Staff Writer
Oh yeah - my thing was to go the the exit at RA where they line up the cars to leave and watch them all leave enthusiastically.
Some even tell your little girl to sit in their car while waiting.
By James Heine
Photography by James Heine
Day 2 at the WeatherTech International Challenge with Brian Redman? Well, rain, mizzle (mist and drizzle), more rain and more mizzle, and finally, late in the afternoon, thankfully, a hint of a change in the weather, just in time for the annual race car parade into Elkhart Lake.
If you’ve never attended a race-car parade in Elkhart Lake, add it to your to-do list. It doesn’t last long, but you can rub shoulders with thousands of your motorsports friends, and also nearly everyone, it seems, from Sheboygan County.
It’s a major community event, with lawn chairs and patio chairs lining the route hours before the parade begins, and pop-ups and party shelters crowding front yards, with potluck dishes and refreshments spilling from folding tables unearthed, we suspect, from basements and garages.
Every restaurant or pub along the route is filled to capacity. When the cars pass by, people cheer and applaud, and after the show has passed, wander to the car show and concours filling Lake Street.
So what if the rain kept the day’s on-track action to a minimum, the parade, always fun, is an especially great antidote to a rainy day.
And, of course, there’s always today at the track to look forward to.
At the track? Stop by the Classic Motorsports booth and say hi.
Oh yeah - my thing was to go the the exit at RA where they line up the cars to leave and watch them all leave enthusiastically.
Some even tell your little girl to sit in their car while waiting.
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