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Elkhart Lake is a small Village of 1,200 human inhabitants located in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin U.S.A. 

Clif Tufte, the founder of Road America, lived here. Road America, America's National Park of Speed, is a road racing course judged to be among the best in the world.

This sleepy little village comes alive on race weekends when hundreds of people come to watch and dine at our restaurants. This is especially true when the WeatherTech International Challenge comes to the track. On Friday night, after racing, a hundred or more race cars drive from the track to the streets of Elkhart Lake......and the people come! Elkhart Lake's human population will swell to 10,000 or more in a few hours.

The race cars are parked along the street and the citizens can get an up close and personal look at them and even talk to the drivers. There's a big parade of cars down the main drag lined with ogling admirers. Many of those in the parade of  race cars take phone videos of the event as they ride into town. After all the cars are parked, people descend on them like a pack of hungry wolves on an elk. 

Many of the drivers let the "little ones" sit in their cars and pretend to be driving. It's my favorite thing to see and who knows how many future race drivers got inspired by doing just that. Look at the joy in the face of the little guy in the last Extra....that says it all.

BTW....on Saturday night they do it all over again only this time with street cars.

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