Derek Willburn <morganx9@yahoo.com> wrote: Maybe they could be in conjunction with vintage race car or vintage motorcycle events? -get some big names to attend?
This might not work so well for a couple of reasons:
Old race drivers are fun to watch, the skills don't go away all that much. But who wants to see old out of shape guys on bikes?
Car racing is about cars and drivers. Bike racing is pretty much about the rider, in most people's minds (present company excluded). So would seeing a fat old Merckx out on a bike be any less depressing if he rode an old bike? Just doesn't seem that appealing.
Tom DaltonActually, Enzo Ferrari used to cut up his old race
cars. Then people would find them and weld them back
together. He finally started giving/selling them away
and were usually raced again by privateers -sometimes
against the factory cars. The production cars were
sold to fund the racing programme and to make the race
cars eligable for certain production classes of
racing. I enjoy going to the vintage races and it
would be great to have vintage bike racing events.
Maybe they could be in conjunction with vintage race
car or vintage motorcycle events? -get some big names
to attend?
Derek Willburn
Long Beach CA
> > Tom wrote: "It's like with vintage racing
> Ferraris, there
> > are the guys who garage them and there are the
> guys who take them
> > to vintage races and get all self righteous about
> how Enzo
> > intended these cars to be raced. "
> >
> > Isn't that what Enzo *intended*? Can you debate
> that?
>
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