Re: What The #$%&*
A couple funny incidents come to mind,,,, at the long gone, late Puyallup Raceway Park, if you got in the stands early enough, you could grab a front row seat that was probably about 10ft from the car in the right lane, at the starting line, as the stands were right above the guardrail down that side of the track. I remember watching a guy carefully staging a '39 Chevy coupe and as the lights came down, I saw his head go back as he was in the middle of a sneeze, and at the moment he finished, the light was already green and his opponent was gone! Not only can you snooze and lose, you can sneeze and lose too!
I also observed the time honored ritual of a racer overstaging, backing up, turning the stage lights on and low and behold, up go the revs, the lights came down, and he dumps the clutch and badly wheelhops backwards because he forgot to put the gearbox in first gear! Strange, but true!
Danny Durham
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