Circle City Success

205. Vintage Indy with Michael lashmett

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Michael Lashmett is the Founder and President of Vintage Indy    Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode 205, where you'll hear Michael tell us about...   ● How he traveled to Indianapolis at the age of 18 looking to find a job with an Indy Car team, not knowing anyone, and spent a week knocking on doors of the local racing teams. He was told not hiring multiple times, so he went back home to his small town in Illinois. Then on the following Monday received a phone call from Tony Hulman's secretary, and she said if he could be back that same afternoon he would have a shot at a job. ● His first job in racing was with Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing Team and how he was hired on the spot by the chief mechanic and lived in Speedway for $25 a month. The house he lived in also happened to be home for the who's who of Indy Car race car drivers. ● How a phone call two week's prior an upcoming race started the Vintage Indy story, what all can be expected at a Vintage Indy event, and how the fans can experience Vin