Word: motocrosses
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...Kennedy misses a big Contra aid vote. Sources reveal that right-wingers secretly gave the congressman tickets to see a tractor pull and motocross race twinbill at a local arena. "I tried to get some other guys on the committee to go with me, but I guess they never learned how to have a good time." Amway salesman George Bachrach, a former Eighth District candidate, said of "young Joe's" absence: "I would have been there...
...During off season the field is usually quiet, except for the occasional concert or ethnic festival but about two weeks ago something changed. Workers covered the field with plastic and plywood and then dumped 600 truckloads of dirt on the field for tractors and bulldozers to sculpt into a motocross track...
Cynics say fans come just to see the crashes, but the race there last weekend indicated that as accidents go, they are pretty tame. A motocross crash has none of the explosive finality of an Indy car slamming into the wall at 200 mph. A rider loses control in a jump, hits the ground off balance, falls off his bike, picks it up and starts going again. Crashes serve much more as opportunities for passing than for broken legs. One of the most exciting parts of Saturday's action was in the second-to-last race, when leader Scott Burnsworth...
...though, try to play up the sport's dangerous in-the-air element. The most exciting part of this course was a large jump called the catapult; Diet Coke gives the driver who jumps the farthest a $1000 bonus. The fans love it, but it reinforces the idea that motocross is a show and not a sport...
Spectators love the spills and thrills, but as one young fan said during the pre-race parade of Miss Toyota. Miss Yamaha and local disc jockey Charles Laquidera hamming it up. "Christ, I just wish they'd get on with it. Motocross fans image is almost as bad as that of the racers themselves Promoters insist it is as inaccurate...