Originally Posted by jaboe
We were there on Sunday. Actually we parked 2 rows behind yours and Ted's bike. We got there around 11, walked around for a few then went over and hung out with the guys from Ken's for the first Superbike race. And let me tell you that dam horn the kid (Kevin's son) kept blowing was loud as shit.
Oh... guess what I managed to get, or what was given to me. I was given an official Yoshimura Suzuki Team pit crew shirt. Now this is not the pit shirts you can buy from Suzuki, but the official shirt with all the team sponsors stitched in. This was courtesy of Greg Wood (crew member) It was crazy, I just walked over when they were loading up the bikes and asked if I could buy one form somewhere with the team sponsors or if I could buy one from them. He said oh no you can only get the official shirts if your part of the team. Then he was like... I tell you what hang around and when we finish loading up the bikes come and see me and I will give you one. Needless to say I did and he gave me the shirt right off his back. Folded it up so you could not see the logos and said keep this hush hush and I'll catch you next year. I was like hell yeah. I put in the cleaners yesterday and will put it in a safe place for now. Hey this may not be much to some people but..... to me it was like gold... Suzuki's 5th championship team crew shirt. And Mladin really is not the ass people think he is. I had a chance to talk to him after the second race when the team was loading up. Cool guy..... said he was off to Japan in two days then what do you know big head Greg Whites comes over and pulls him for a interview. Yates was cool to I din't have a pin for a autograph on my tee shirt so he was like follow me I'll get one. At times I felt like a reporter...lol.. I talked to Roger Lee.... another cool kid. Said he was staying with Kawasaki next year and just kept saying they treated him real well. I also asked him what was his brother (Nicky) going to do next year. He just laughed and said I haven't talk to him much in the last month. Montez Stewart was cool.... But when I asked him some question about his bike he was like I don't know man that's some Moto GP stuff. All in all another great year at the track. And no I did not get drunk this time.....lol
man your lucky you got to talk to all of them. By the time I got there they were all too busy racing.The only racer I got to talk to is Eric Bostrom pretty down to earth guy. I got him to sign my poster. All in all it was fun its just next time I will get more sleep. I had no sleep the night before... well Cant wait for them to come back next year....