Great stuff Pov - glad to know you all hooked up. Good ..... I haven't been to a flat track race in a dog's age.
Truth be known, if it wasnt for Spies performance all weekend, the flat track experience would have been the highlight of the weekend. With Nicky being Grand Marshall of the event, he got to talk to his peeps and the kid is just so gracious, you cant help but like him. On top of that, Ducati showed him great respect Saturday night when his whole team showed up at dirt race, stood on the podium with him as it was announced to the world by a big wig at Ducati that Nicky had signed for 2 more years. Of course the crowd went nuts and the Ducati dude layed it on heavier and thicker as he went with his speech about how he loved America, and as a child in Italy, he dreamed of the American dream blah blah. It was kind of corny and an attempt to soften up a pro Harley crowd to at least consider the possibility of owning a Ducati some day. As the night went on, i fully expected Nickys team to exit, but it never happened. They stayed for the whole show and i thought that was pretty cool. . Ducati had a huge presence the whole weekend, more so than any other manufacturer , with the Ducati island and all that goes with that { fashion shows, Ducati only parking with their own gear check stations, free ...., if your a Ducati owner, more on that later, Ducati press release at flat track, all the buzz about Rossi to Ducati, even had an artist drawing pictures of Rossi on the Ducati and selling them for goofy amounts of money. It was a Ducati theme weekend. About the free ...., i somehow went to a ....... bike race without a ticket holder. No problem, someone is always giving that .... away right. Well close. Tissot was giving away the strap only, which i though was dumb, as were other vendors. Went to Ducati Island to watch the bikini contest and the chicks looked like heroin addicts and they had some gay looking guys modeling Ducati cloths and break dancing. What the .... is this ...., i come to see a bikini contest and the chicks look like hell and there are dudes. Turns out they call it a fashion show. Anyway, bingo, there is a table full of free .... for the taking and right in the middle of the table is hundreds of ticket holders with Ducati straps. I politely ask if i can have one, and the ..... behind the table says, do you own a Ducati. All i have to do is lie, but that is not me, and i say no. She says sorry, they are for Ducati owners only. I look her square in the eyes and say,that 10 cent piece of plastic just ensured that i will never be a Ducati owner, Thanks.