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More WERA/ FUSA from Road Atlanta.

Discussion in 'WERA Vintage' started by yamageezer, Feb 21, 2017.

  1. yamageezer

    yamageezer Well-Known Member

    Couldn't help but not post this. Better races, better ads, cheesier 90s rock music!!!

     
  2. SpeedWerks Racing

    SpeedWerks Racing Well-Known Member

    That was a great weekend,,thanks for finding that.
     
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  3. 83BSA

    83BSA Well-Known Member

    I was there . . . .

    Cheers,

    Dave
     
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  4. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Me too, that's the year I moved to Bluffton and lived with Bargy :D
     
  5. pscook

    pscook Well-Known Member

    Cool video! And again with Mike Sullivan... (In the GSXR1100 Saturday heat race.) That dude got around back in the day.
     
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  6. TLR67

    TLR67 Well-Known Member

    I was there and camping.... I remember talking with Tom Kipp in the Pits also....Building a fire and camping at the top of T-5... Crazy stuff going on in the Infield back there at night... People getting drug around behind a truck on a upside down car hood and all....
     
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  7. Robin172

    Robin172 Well-Known Member

     
  8. ToofPic

    ToofPic Well-Known Member

    Turn 6 we camped out.Best racing memories back then.All those fruity colors on the bikes back then LOL
     
  9. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Were you the guys that protected my banners until after racing was done Sunday?
     
  10. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Then again that might have been the crew in T7.
     
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  11. ToofPic

    ToofPic Well-Known Member

    I'm sorry,but no...We were the ones that usually got yelled at the next morning for acting up,and not letting decent people sleep.
    I seem to remember one of my friends pulling up pine trees on the outside of turn 6,and having to be removed from the track late one night.
    We may have been guilty of drinking just a bit too much?:beer:
     
  12. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    That all describes the peeps in T7 too :D
     
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  13. gpracer15

    gpracer15 Built to Ride

    watched my first motorcycle race at Road A in 1993! All I remember is that it as PACKED!!!

    Wall to wall people from the front to the back. I found a RGV250 next to a van with a for sale
    sign and had no idea what it was and then realized it was a two stroke. Spent a month trying
    to figure out how to buy it and finally bought it. Later in 1995 I took Bargy's school on it and
    raced 4 weekends with WERA as a novice on it...Back then even D-SBK had 3 wave starts!!!

    I wish the spectator enthusiasm and media coverage had grown instead of decline over the years....
     
  14. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Well - a large part of the draw was the event as a whole - mainly the party. That carried over to the AMA going back to Road Atlanta. But then came the spectators getting hurt badly or killed during the party which brought in more security and control - which killed the party and the turnouts.

    Also at the time we held pretty much the biggest events at Road Atlanta - Petite didn't exist yet, Valvoline runoffs had moved to Mid-O, no AMA Pro. It was a combination of all that which led to the crowds.
     

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