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Subject: MID-OHIO Memories
From: "Kansa, Robert" <KansaR@diebold.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 16:32:15 -0400
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no really, mom and dad would take me to the end of the long straight and told 
me to stay put. gave me a stopwatch(still in my toolbox!) and bought me a 
program (the kind that had a fill in the blank lap chart) and i used to sit for 
hours and watch the racing, while the crowd partied.. i remember one 
particularly hot trans am meet, (boy those champion spark plug challenge 
gremlins were ugly but fast back then), when  it was all over i found dad being 
ill by the tire of his old brown econoline. he had a sheet of plywood mounted 
on top of the van so people could climb up on top and watch (mom even fell off 
the van once after too much boones farm). Then there was this guy i would play 
frisbee with between sessions..he would never spill a drop of beer...ive got a 
bunch of 8mm movies of the old nationals and the can am's dad took spliced 
together, great cars i race against and see now at the track, and i'm sure the 
occasional clips of the flashing drunk women between cars going through the 
esses didnt effect me much, nor did that strange burnt organic smell that was 
in his van for days..yich...  what great inspirational impressions of racing in 
the early 70's! then years later, i find myself being one of those great old 
cars i used to watch while i got sunburnt.  
R(wnik) Kansa's  



>>Sooo ... ah ... what were you timing?

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