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« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2008, 09:27:54 am » |
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Holy shit. you were with us correct? I remember that worst year: 2004 i think it was, saw a guy fall off the back on a pickup and shatter his head open, boom, dead...and the driver of the truck took off, but i heard he got caught at the gate
best year, first year, 2003
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« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2008, 04:28:10 pm » |
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I've seen people fall off the backs of trucks and I've seen people play in the firepit but I think the worst injury I ever saw was a guy get hit over the head with a bottle...I was looking in his eyes when the bottle hit and saw them go blank and he fell....I don't know what happened to him. I was walking across the street in front of the old F-Troop corner and the crowd was extremely thick. His girlfriend screamed and help came.
Really hard to say best, most of my best memories are from the 80's and 90's...visiting friends (and family) all over the track, friends jamming on stage at F-Troop (and not the ones that make money at it the rest of the year), the old F-Troop Drum and Bugle Corp Parades, GTPs from the 80's, The Drag Race, Finish line at the end of the race. Too many to list....
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« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2008, 02:23:17 pm » |
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Back in the late 60's or early 70's they used to have a "Super Vee" race. Basically equally prepared open wheel cars with Volkwagon engines. Coming into the old hairpin one totally missed the turn,... flew over the big pile of dirt and killed several spectators.
Best time was maybe mid 70's at, where else,... "F-Troop", where two girls on top o a trailer did some exciting things with a banana,... The whole crowd was chanting,... "Go Banana - Go Banana - Go Go Banana"
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« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2008, 03:55:04 pm » |
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I know it's not Sebring but I saw something similar at 24 Hour of Daytona sometime in the early to mid 90's involving 1 girl, a stool, a beer can and a video camera. Everyone talks about Sebring so I don't get to brag very often about seeing that in the campsite next to us.
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« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2008, 04:22:32 pm » |
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« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2008, 10:11:08 am » |
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No, it wasn't...I wonder why I didn't get a still photo, but it was night and view was from the top of the van. Whoever has that video has a great souvenir !
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« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2008, 06:47:02 pm » |
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Too many memories to name just one, but here are a few top tens:
Best: Hanging out at F-Troop each year, seeing people we hadn't seen in more than a year.
Worst: When someone slipped a roofie in my beer at F-Troop in 2005. Luckily for me, I handed the beer to Swillz and Carlos. Not so lucky for them.
Best: Meeting all the drivers and the team impala at autograph day.
Worst: Being trapped in the pit box for 3 hours after deluge started during autograph session last year. (Ran out of beer and food and the rain kept coming.
Best: Enjoying the mudbogging days in the 1990's in the hairpin.
Worst: Having a drunken mudbogger run through my tentsite across the bridge from hairpin.
Best: Having a cooler full of beer.
Worst: Having an empty cooler.
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« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2008, 12:44:04 pm » |
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I think that year was 1992. The BMW driver was a customer of mine and his name was Mark Kent. One of the shops that I did work for prepped that M3 and brought the wreck back to the shop after the race. There were tire marks on his helmet, and it was pretty sad to see the damage to the car let alone the death of a customer/friend. When I went to last years race I went to that turn to reflect about Mark.
quote:Worst: Not sure the year but witnessing the death of a BMW driver who went straight off in turn 2 and struck a bus/ Also the porsche driver who had a heart attack and crashed into the turn 1 wall killing him. (not sure the year either, i know i was a young teenager)
Sew on and sew on...
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« Reply #23 on: March 09, 2008, 10:35:53 am » |
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Best: memories of playing in the sand where we camp (not much sand anymore) when I was a little kid and burrying yoohoos with the intension of finding them the next year...never did find them.
late nights sitting in a lawn chair at the track between turns 7-10 and thinking about what I could do to the nissans and toyotas to sobotage the jaguar's to victory.
the mud pits of the late 80s early 90s. i miss the good ol "let them puppies breathe" chant.
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« Reply #24 on: March 10, 2008, 07:59:45 pm » |
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The worst were the Dust Bowl/Hodaka/Hare and Hounds years.Dodging those drunk/tripping bastards on their 125's ,WFO and coming at you from every direction.
The Best was my first year 1968.I was 15 and rode over from Tampa with my older brother Steve.We were in his 63 Alfa Giulietta spyder. He saved up for 5 years bagging groceries at Winn Dixie to buy it.5 months later the Alfa was gone and so was he,to the Marines and then to Nam.Thankfully we have been back to Sebring many,many times together.You never forget your first time,do you.
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« Reply #25 on: March 10, 2008, 09:58:09 pm » |
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Best time had to be maybe 98 or 99. The girls were feeling very "frisky" that year, and luckily we have pictures to prove it.
Worst time had to be last year when our camp was destroyed by the storm. Or maybe it was the year I drank 50+ natty lights, a litre of Canadian Club, and some Vodka. That day was awesome, but the next day (Saturday) was kind of a bust!
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« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2008, 11:29:45 am » |
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Best year - sitting in the Bently Box
Worst year - Last years monsoon - FEMA never came.
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« Reply #27 on: March 18, 2008, 11:33:02 am » |
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Worst year,.. leaving early on Saturday to go get my best friends body to the coroner, and call his three daughters to tell them their Dad had died.
Best year,... every year other than this one
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« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2008, 10:25:56 pm » |
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Very sorry man.
Watching the end of that race, running to the podium ceremony, cheering the Penske crew in the paddock at like 1 something in the morning riding with La Bomba. That was all hard to beat.
Worst......Drinking waaaaay to much my first day of my first Sebring( Friday '06) puking in a port-o-john that was about 140 degrees, passing out in the bed of my truck and waking up to a noisy-ass-shit truck parked right next to me servicing RV's. After that it wasn't too bad. Sobered up real fast having to find good air.
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I'm not a gynecologist, but I'll take a look.
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« Reply #29 on: March 19, 2008, 04:29:11 am » |
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Worst year,.. leaving early on Saturday to go get my best friends body to the coroner, and call his three daughters to tell them their Dad had died.
Best year,... every year other than this one
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