Running Two Bikes, and Spokesman for loosers

1972, Indy. I got permission from Steve Gibbs to try and qualify both of my bikes and got hurt when a rod broke right off the starting line and ended up in the hospital and Sonny Raz was in a different Hospital, the year he lost part of his hand. NHRA rules were you could not ride two bikes in the same class, I could choose one I wanted to ride and get another rider for the other but I would have put it in the trailer.

There was a bad issue at Bowling Green one year (which was a NHRA Sanction track) when TC rode two bikes in the same class and collected the money for both and left the track. Everybody came to me to be spokesman for them and we all went to the tower, about 25 or 30 crowded in the lower of that little thing and I got in a loud debate with one of the official, we were really going at it and I mention all these people would like something done. He said what people and I looked around and every body had left and I was the one that looked like a fool.

Nothing was done and I never got over that disloyalty.

Gas and Fuel Championships

At the Bakersfield Gas and Fuel Championships when I turned the First Eight Second run which was on Saturday, I also ran a 9.12 the day before right off the Trailer





There was another rider there that turned a 9.02 during the first round of eliminations on race day.
His name was Boris Murray.

We raced in the finals, and Boris only had one motor left in his bike. I won the race but I wonder what might have happened if he had both motors?
Would he have won? Would it have pushed me too another eight? Or maybe both into the eights with who knows who might have won?
That's why I love Drag Racing