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Austin woman receives COTA piece to add to her late husband's collection | FOX 7 Austin

The chairman of COTA gave a south Austin woman the surprise of a lifetime. It commemorates the love she and her husband shared as racing and motorsports fans. #FOX7Austin brings you the important stuff like breaking news, weather, and local stories out of Central #Texas. But also plenty of fun stuff, like Pet of the Weekend, the best of our archives, and all those 'only-in-#Austin' stories. Subscribe to FOX 7 Austin: https://www.youtube.com/myFOXaustin Download the FOX 7 Austin News app: http://bit.ly/3sNGN7a Subscribe to the FOX 7 Austin newsletter: https://bit.ly/2Th6U9Y More from FOX 7 Austin: https://www.fox7austin.com/ Got a news tip? Call us at 512-472-0988 or email us: ktbcnews@fox.com

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7 days ago

this is a original core from turn 12 oh my God this is so cool turn 12 at Circuit of the Americas turn 12 means everything to me it's where Lisa Weinberger and her husband sat during the first race held at Kota this picture which is one of my favorite pictures of all time with my husband was at turn 12 in 2012 at the first Formula race she says the track was one of the selling points to get her husband to move to Austin from Chicago my husband never would have agreed to move to Austin if there w
asn't a track Lisa's husband John Weinberger was a racer and car dealer he fell in love with cars when he passed in 2020 his wife drove his Victory lap at Kota and turn 12 was the place where I spun him out in the hearse she's now created a space dedicated to him a replica of the Kota track we're trying to be part of the community and this is Austin and this is the community and to see it Embrace like this is is beyond what we'd expect but I hope 20 other people want to do it same

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