"Ken Plotkin" <kplotkin (AT) nospam-cox (DOT) net> wrote

Have you ever been in the Darlington infield?
it is a great party and still safe to bring women and children. I wouldn't
do that at Indy.
sure there is drinking and pot smoking, but no wet T-Shirt contests that
degenerate from there{not that I object to that}NA$CAR is probably the most
family friendly events going.

On Oct 25, 11:38*pm, "Ray O'Hara" <raymond-oh... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Have you ever been to the infield at Talladega? I have been told that
it is better now, but in the 90s it was one of the most degenerate
public places I have ever have been. There were children there, but
are probably scarred for life ;-)

Not as bad as the snake pit, though...

"Lenny" <jameslong001 (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

On Oct 25, 11:38 pm, "Ray O'Hara" <raymond-oh... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Have you ever been to the infield at Talladega? I have been told that
it is better now, but in the 90s it was one of the most degenerate
public places I have ever have been. There were children there, but
are probably scarred for life ;-)

Not as bad as the snake pit, though...

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I've been in the infields of Darlington and Dover and I'd not worry if my
mother had been there.
I've also been to the Laconia Bike races in Loudon NH , so I know what true
depravity looks like.
'

Green Park in Sebring is a lot safer than the stories i have heard
about.

[Default] Thus spake "Ray O'Hara" <raymond-ohara (AT) hotmail (DOT) com>:

The only time I've been to the 505, the infield didn't look like it
was for race watching. I was for frisbee tossing, pot smoking (and
pretty good stuff, from the response), woman groping (some encouraged,
some not so happily), and general "anything but the race:.

In the 60's and 70's, drag racing was a strange mix of "family
friendly" over here, and "just a little too rough for the nice folks"
over there. And then it trickled in. Miss Hurst, Linda <something>
with the massive knockers sitting in the stands.

Now it's so namby-pamby.

- dillon I am not invalid

"Always shoot first. At the very least you'll
distract the guy enough to make the second one count"
-- Lazurus Long

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:05:56 -0500, Dillon Pyron
<invaliddmpyron (AT) austin (DOT) rr.com> wrote:


Same thing today.

IMS pretty much cut that off with the later start for the 500.

It's kind of a change that most of today's drivers are fans. In the
old days, a lot of drivers got into it without really being into
racing. Junior Johnson supposedly was out plowing his field when a
promotor came by and asked if he'd like to drive something. Or guys
like Lee Petty who got into it in their 30s. Or John Surtees, who
drove in the first car race that he ever attended.

I think they've got more hope of Canada, as long as they can hang onto
Paul Tracy.

They had restrictor plates back then. Also selective banning of
particular engines. But it wasn't for any panty-waist thing like
keeping speed down. It was to equalize the cars and improve the show,
without making the cars clones of each other.

Glad to see you're still looking in here, Dillon.

Ken Plotkin

[Default] Thus spake Ken Plotkin <kplotkin (AT) nospam-cox (DOT) net>:

Not sure if I was clear. "The race" refers to whatever was in town.
If "the race" was in Nazerath, then folks in the roughly 100 mile
radius might show up.

I've been watching the Isle of Man TT on Discovery HD Theater (if you
get it, they also have a show "GT-Racer" that follows "the gentlemen's
racing" series, aka Masters Marahons, which are three to six hour
races for cars built prior to roughly 1975.

Well, now that Montreal apparently has the GP back, we'll see how it
goes. But with tickets in the $300 range, I'll bet lots of people
from Toronto won't go. And hotels near the train line are running
$400/nt.

Yeah. Point well taken. But I also remember some of those evil
looking (in the good way) Talledagas and Daytonas with the wings. I
saw one on a trailer a few years back, in perfect condition. I was
very tempted to follow him, but Carol had this thing about actually
taking our turn off to get to my mother's house instead of driving to
what was likely OKC.

Yeah, I haven't really been on rasi, so I haven't seen much. Might as
well head on over, as it seems that Von and I have been the only
posters there until this thread started.

- dillon I am not invalid

"Always shoot first. At the very least you'll
distract the guy enough to make the second one count"
-- Lazurus Long