Kevin Sherman FL Amateur?

RetroDawgWalk wrote:

I only know of one person to ever go undefeated in their amateur racing career and that happens to be me. From 79-83 I never lost...

I only know of one person to ever go undefeated in their amateur racing career and that happens to be me. From 79-83 I never lost a race ever - never even scored a moto finish that wasn’t a 1. I won every single overall for every class I entered going 286-0. In 82’ some kid “beat me” in a second moto, my old man (rest his soul) was furious, but not with me. He went to the promoter and filed a protest. We paid to have the motorcycle tore down and, as I’m sure you guys guessed, the bike was illegal. I was awarded the moto win and overall keeping my streak alive. We were obviously relieved and couldn’t help but go into celebration mode. We would take the paper copies of each result sheet from my races at the end of each race day and on Monday mornings my old man would take them to the local bank and have them notarized. I had binder with the result sheet hole punched and would scan through them once in a blue moon. I put them in my old man’s casket just before he was buried. I stepped away at the end of 83’ due to being a late bloomer and kids in my age group being much taller than me. The 125’s were just too big. I laugh anytime I read about these “phenoms” everyone is supposed to be on the lookout for. How many phenoms besides maybe Alessi never scored a “2” in a single moto in their amateur career? I’ll take notice when I hear about one of these youngsters doing what I did. 

Bobby Barracuda wrote:

Yeah that’s a lie 

RetroDawgWalk wrote:

Believe what you want. 286 straight moto wins is a lot I will admit but I stand to gain nothing for lying about that. Many years...

Believe what you want. 286 straight moto wins is a lot I will admit but I stand to gain nothing for lying about that. Many years later when the movie Talladega Nights came out; the running joke for a long time was my buddy Mitchell calling me “Ricky Bobby” because all I did was win for that 4 year stretch. Heck man, even to this day I’ll swing by Mitchell’s work (former manager at Wendy’s but is now a cook at Chilis, given our older age he couldn’t handle the demands of a manager anymore) every once in a while and if it isn’t too busy he’ll make me items that aren’t necessarily on the menu because he plays into the whole “superstar” or “big time” joke just so he can mess with me about it.