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From: vector@inuxe.UUCP (Randal Blackwood)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: IHPVA Speed Championships last weekend
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 13:40:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 13:40:30 1985
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> 	Just got back from the IHPVA Speed Championships at Indy and
> 	thought some readers might like a run-down. ...

I've got a complaint about the IHPVA Speed Championships, which were
held here out at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  I took Friday off
work so that I could attend the events.  I went out to the track in the
morning and watched for about an hour (saw Carl go 58+mph). Then I left to
go get some film for my camera.  When I came back there was some idiot who
wouldn't let me in.  He had some piece of paper claiming that the event
was not open to the general public. (Unless you call standing at the south
end of the track where there was no p.a. and the vehicles were only
going about 20mph warming up, open to the general public)  I was UPSET.
That was the stupidest thing I have ever heard of.  Here is an organization
that I would think would like all the publicity it can get and the event
was closed to the public.  Why I was able to get in once, and not a
second time boggled my mind also.

This whole incident got me so mad, that I didn't even want to go to the
events on Saturday and Sunday.

Any comments?

Randy Blackwood
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