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« on: August 21, 2011, 10:00:07 pm » |
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Friday the 19th was the anniversary of the Dieppe Raid. I decided to excersise my freedom and took a motorcycle ride to the Memorial on Hamilton Beach. The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry suffered 197 of the 913 casualties. The Rev. John Foote received the VC for his actions at Dieppe. IMG]http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab145/MaximPhil_photos/Dieppe%20Memorial/DieppeMemorial003.jpg[/IMG]  Lest We Forget Phil |
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Canada Phil
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« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2011, 10:02:15 pm » |
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After that ..off to the races.  Sprint cars at the Dirt Oval. Phil |
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Canada Phil
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« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2011, 10:07:23 pm » |
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Chris24
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2011, 10:24:08 pm » |
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I remember visiting the Canadian memorial in Dieppe with you two years ago on the way home from Le Mans, hope you found the memorial in Canada easier than we found the hotel in Dieppe later that same night. LOL !
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Canada Phil
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« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2011, 12:53:56 am » |
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Hi Chris, I had visited before so I knew where I was going  Phil |
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Boorish Grobian
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« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2011, 06:42:04 pm » |
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Hey Phil, Didn't know you guys had winged sprinter action going on up there too. Cool! One of these days you'll have take a trip down here to Eldora, one of the true Cathedral's of dirt track racing. The list of greats you've raced, and won there include, Mario, AJ, PJ, JR, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, etc. Tony Stewart actually owns the place these days. Every season I try to get to one of the USAC sprinter & midget meets there. (the midgets are really something to see fly cue a punchline from Andy Z) Fax |
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Canada Phil
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« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2011, 06:47:08 am » |
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Hey Phil, Didn't know you guys had winged sprinter action going on up there too. Cool! One of these days you'll have take a trip down here to Eldora, one of the true Cathedral's of dirt track racing. The list of greats you've raced, and won there include, Mario, AJ, PJ, JR, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, etc. Tony Stewart actually owns the place these days. Every season I try to get to one of the USAC sprinter & midget meets there. (the midgets are really something to see fly cue a punchline from Andy Z) Fax Hi Fax, Ok add that to the list of things to do. Phil |
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Chris24
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« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2011, 01:34:11 am » |
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Ahh, Sprint Cars, love em to bits, the fastest thing you could ever see on a small oval as illustrated by the excert from an article i wrote about them racing in Australia.
"It’s an awesome experience stood on the infield with 900 HP sprint cars circling you on full throttle and I can only imagine what it must be like with a full grid of cars on track. Tonight there are only 7 sprints on track practicing but the infield is still a dangerous place if you don’t have your wits about you, as I was to discover during the evening. While photographing one particular car, the driver lost control and spun which sent the car straight down the banking and heading directly for where I was standing. For a brief moment I found out what a rabbit caught in a cars headlights must feel like, because the car was moving at a much greater speed than I could move. I was frozen to the spot and couldn’t move until the driver had seen me and done his bit to take avoiding action, but as soon as I saw him turn the steering wheel to the right, I was off and running the opposite direction. Let me tell you, a sprint car can cover a vast distance in a very short space of time !"
Took about a year off my life in about 2 seconds flat !
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Boorish Grobian
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« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2011, 06:37:37 am » |
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Hey Chris, you ought to see about twenty or thirty of them lined up on a Saturday night at Eldora, or on the paved high banks at Winchester, spitting methanol flames out the pipes...I know your fan of the sport and it would blow your mind. You walk up to the Winchester ticket gate, and there's photos of guys like Jimmy Bryan, Don Branson, Jud Larson, and some cat named Mario on the walls, like I said, it would leave you speechless.
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Chris24
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« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2011, 04:17:14 am » |
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It did leave me speechless the last time I saw them race at Texas in 2003, Looked for all the world like it was fight between Steve Kinser and Pittman for the feature win with them battling for lap after lap down the bottom of the track. Then with 5 laps to go, Jason Johnson blasted past both of them like they were standing still. He had been running the high line right against the wall for lap after lap and found a groove and I nor Kinser or Pittman could believe what we were seeing. Absolutely unbelieveable race, that you could run right against the wall at 130 mph all the way around the track. Blew my mind that night.
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