[Ducati] collage station club racing this weekend

[Stephen Abramson]

It was a little too long to add to the subject line and change it to "early
morning race smells and sounds-was college station club racing" so it's here
instead.

Reading the posts took me back to Bridgehampton in the late '70's. Before we
had money for a motel at night, it was barbeque for dinner and tent for
sleep. Partying with John Bettencourt and his sort was quite an experience,
although without tainting the memory of a righteously fast hero of the time,
I did not indulge the night before a race as did many participants of that
era. How people could race the morning after doing stuff like I saw around
the campfire I will never know. Two bad things happened to me at
Bridgehampton (beside pure racing incidents like crashing in turn 1 (very,
very fast)-one was falling asleep on the uphill run after the carousel and
running onto the gravel before waking up. Cause- going to sleep around 4 am
before race day. The second was throwing up in my helmet during one of my
races. Cause-going to sleep around 4 am after stupid amounts of drinking
with Bettencourt et al. After almost 30 years of racing and track days
since, I have never done that to myself since. Although when there was no
racing involved, I have been known to have a few too many Sam Smith Nut
Browns. Only a few times...Really...
But the point of this was the cloud from the TZ's in the morning. What a
sight/smell! 




I love the smell of two stroke oil in the morning!
In the 70's early 80's a growing cloud of castrol fumes would slowly roll
across the pits
with the ringggg dinggg dinggg sound of rd's and tz's..... those were the
days
Marc
f4 1000
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