Quote Originally Posted by Steve Holmes View Post
This is moments after the start, as the field sweeps into the tight hairpin for the first time. Johnson is already well in command.

Note the flaggies perched on the concrete wall that separates the two straights here!

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Woohoo! Jeez...I was a skinny bugger back then. Possibly the most exciting flag point I ever worked on. I'm the skinny dude in the grey sweatpants. If we needed to go to the toilet during the race; we had to sprint across the track! Life was so easy back then....