When Playboys Ruled the World

Joel Robert fits the mold.

As well as Tim Richmond.

(Back when nascar was legit)

My brother’s buddy was in the pit crew for Tim Richmond. He told me “all the stories you hear about Tim…. are true.”

In 1983 I sneaked into a moto GP (wasn't a brand name yet) pits with help from a friend who was racing the Superbike support race. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera, cause I saw some incredible sights. 

I can't remember how it came about but I ended up standing in a circle with 5 or 6 half-drunks, talking shit with Barry Sheene. He was wandering around with his leathers pulled down to his waist, socializing and enjoying himself .  Watch any Guy Ritchie movie and you'll get the idea what the banter was like 🤣    

Then in 1987 I saw the NASCAR race at Riverside Raceway in SoCal that was Tim Richmond's last win. He only raced 6 more times and died 2 years later. See pics below, no. 25.

I watched James Hunt race F1 GPs half a dozen times and  saw him in the pits once, and heard the stories of quickies with pitboard girls in the porta-cans before races 🤣 

Today, cigarette and booze sponsorships and pitboard girls are banned from F1 because the little poofs whose daddies buy their seats to play videogames...  are offended. 

 F1 ended in the 1990s, really.

The good old days....  glad I got to live it.