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May 6, 2017
Cinco de 'Dega
It's Talladega Baby!
Gotta make one more run at Talladega. It's the best track of all.
Cold front came through last night and couldn't get any cooperation from the weather. Overcast grey, low cieling- 400' to 600', wind 12 to 15 @ 270* would not break.
Broke clear enough to get the jet dryers off the track and run some practice laps/heats.
Still love to go to the track but it's not the same. Put off writing this from a couple years back but can no longer ignore; The races have peaked. We've past the apex,... the zenith, the top, the peak of racing. ?Is it over? No. ?Is it in a decline? yes. How long? ?Don't know but the momentum is to the downside.
This is Friday, time trials and practice day... not a big attendance day, but there is hardly anybody here. ?Am I the only real trooper out here?There's maybe 20 people in the stands. OK, they start practice laps/ mini-heats... and there's 50 people in the stands. It's a good day!
Sometimes I thin I've seen the peak, the apex, the zenith of racing... was glad to see it and savor the greatness of it. Maybe it's on a down cycle now... lower attendance... younger fans that don't understand Petty, Pearson, Baker ect... the pioneers of racing.
You never drink twice from the same stream.
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