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Old Race Photos

budman said:
Cool pic of Gardner...busted his leg up pretty good from what I remember.. and The Bubba deal was a tradgedy.. :sad

The track has a lot more run off in turn 6 now.. turn two used to be a wicked fast lefty with a hillside right there..:wow

I have ridden the track in all of the configurations..and the current is the safefest by far..but I think the MotoGP guys who have never seen it will be freaked..a little and think it is not safe..we'll see.

MORE!

And no Rick those are not my bell bottoms..:laughing

Here is my son and I at the first GP..tired guy he was..and it was blazing hot too..

:smoking

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Gotta love it....rockin the old school Kushitani hat.
Great Pics from everyone BTW......please keep em coming!
 
In February 1983 my friend that owned the CB1100R was testing a race car at Laguna Seca, he raced Formula Atlantic. That day he shared the track with with the Yamaha team & Michael Andretti.

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I really don't think Lawson and Knobby Clark liked me snooping around with a camera.

Kel Carruthers, on the other hand was very nice. He came up to me and asked what the pictures were for. I told him some story about a school project. He just said something about not showing them to competition and let me continue.

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And I can't remember if this was '81 or '82, but Dudley Moore & Susan Anton were VIP guests at the races. This photo was taken inside the Newman building.

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Awesome pix! :thumbup

What's up with T-6?

I've seen some crazy crashes there. The one that sticks in memory the most was seeing a rider some how dis-mount his bike and watching his bike continue on all the way up the hill to T-7 :loco From a spectators view, it doesn't look to be all that technical ......other than carrying a lot of speed up the hill from T-5 :confused

fwiw, during the 90's I visited Laguna often, so I know the track lay-out very well, but have never tracked it personally.
 
great way to start a friday

Thanks for posting those pics. I haven't thought about some of those racers/bikes in years. Brings back lots of good memories. :teeth
 
Doohan, 1994. I think he had just won his first world championship the round before, but I remember reading that he let Kevin keep the Number 1 on his bike for his "home" GP.

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Johndicezx9 said:
Here's one for "Deacon", isn't this like your bike?

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It is indeed, even down to the truncated fairing! :toothless

(I'd guess an FZR750 with the 'street' half fairing... the race model had bodywork that went all the way down and under the headers.)
 
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