Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >Um, I have a cool picture of Ken Roberts at Pocono in 1976, in the >pits after the race scratching his head while looking at the Manx >Norton 500 that I helped get into the AMA races there. He lapped >Charlie on the third lap, passing while coming down off the banking >on the TZ750 at over 220 mph where the Manx was going absolutely flat- >out at about 140mph. Charlie wobbled into pit lane after that and >said he was done. ;-)
I raced WERA events at Pocono a couple of times. I actually liked racing there, although it certainly was a dangerous place with all those concrete walls around. Riding a motorcycle on banking takes some getting used to :) The straights were boring as hell on an FZR400, though. Topped out at around 130 mph you're tucked in waiting for the straight to end for what seems like a *long* time. (Gets interesting immediately afterward!)
