What Happens When Decrepit School Buses Race a Figure Eight Course? (Florida)

Sometimes, when it feels like the world is turning all ‘Mad Max’ on you, you just want to watch something crash and burn.

Enter the Showtime Speedway in Clearwater (AKA Showtime Speedway Pinellas Park), home to professional racing on an oval paved track and a quarter-mile straightaway. Several events a month (mostly on Saturdays or holidays) are around, but the school buses were a new one to me.

Thanks to some construction along the main road anda lack of signage, we arrived after the first...