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The track in places was narrowed down to only a few feet of useable ground as the rest of it was too deep and rutted. Made it hard to pass and the racing boring
The nationals this year seem especially rough, which I also think is great.
The track was so natural, we would have to pick blades of grass out of our boot buckles after practice.
I just took a virtual lap, from Saturday, courtesy of Will Haun and GoPro. The track speed is MUCH faster than 79.
It's rutty like 79 but not as whooped out.
It's the next best thing to being in the race.
Here's the result from the 500 class in 79.
The Shop
RV2 #1 at the des nations.
Today it looks like nothing more than a normal Central NY hill up or down.
Maybe it was the tall grass that made it look so terrifying at the time.
Pit Row
Proud to have had 3ft long grass stuck in my pegs during practice, hitting the same bumps my moto heros hit decades before because the track was only dragged, not groomed back then.
Perfect example of a section that was better back then was the staircase (the area just passed where Bubba landed on Ricky) Seeing guys use different lines using a different rhythm over 30 year old woops was badass.. Having a wide open double there now is a joke by comparison.
Anyway.. gotta go.. I'm heading there in a couple hours.
It is steep and I haven't been to that side of the track in about 10 years as I have sat near the new table top close to Gravity Cavity and haven't walked the track much, but all the times I went to the wall it it was steep, but anyone that was coordinated could walk up it... Heck, we took an old man from my church that was in his mid 80s wearing baseball spikes and he made it up.
I must be losing it.
When I first made the trip, we snuck into the riders meeting.
Sat between Jimmy Weinert and Torston Hallman till that NY State Trooper noticed the fake pass we made up,
and threatened to lock us up.
At that time, Mid 70s, Screw U was the drop some now call Gravity Cavity.
Thought it was lame to rename it, bending to the political correct.
And what you guys are saying was Screw U, we called the wall.
Anyway, I say after the vet thing just throw a few tons of rye grass, mixed with some fertilizer, and be the one stop that's
kinda natural when the nats come around.
I mean, The Hill across the street ain't coming back, but the grass, they could do that........
the place felt very surreal because it looked almost entirely untouched by man made efforts to alter the terrain.
it does not feel that way anymore. It's still cool but.....it's doesn't generate the amazement that such a spot existed, where a giant race track was just plopped down naturally.
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