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pishta

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Check out this 1-2-3 victory parade shot...look at the guy in the back seat of the parade truck...me! I was invited by the driver (a retired phone guy I worked with) to hop in after the VIP couldn't make it. It was the highlight of my 5 years working there. This was also on the front page of the LB newspaper.
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Brings back memory's.... grew up in LB and remember sneaking into the Stroh's beer hospitality area at the race back in the day. Man I'm old...
 
Phista,,,for some dumb reason I was thinkin you looked like Ronald Reagan.

but you look pretty good in black pants ! LOL
Looked like alot of fun.




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Check out this 1-2-3 victory parade shot...look at the guy in the back seat of the parade truck...me! I was invited by the driver (a retired phone guy I worked with) to hop in after the VIP couldn't make it. It was the highlight of my 5 years working there. This was also on the front page of the LB newspaper.
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I can’t see you invisible!

Ahhh, got it now. Very nice.
 
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I tried to get some VIP tix from Acura for me and an NSX customer but it was such a last minute decision for them to sponsor there was too much chaos... He ended up going but he has way deeper pockets than me...lol. Sent me lots of pics though.
Looked like fun.
 
lots of ticket screw ups this year due to last minute sponsorship. Local Hilton VIP customers were given Sunday tickets and told to show up Friday! They didn't work.....My will call tickets came from Atlanta and were delivered Friday morning after the ticket booths were open for 2 hours....but the race went off without a hitch. Rossi won with such a large lead because there were no yellows to bunch the cars back up. The stadium truck race had mandatory yellows to keep the pack close, the fenders rubbing, and exciting.
 
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