For the night opening ceremonies, all of the riders were asked to enter the track with their helmets off so the fans could see the rider behind the helmet!
A great touch for the opening ceremonies!
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For the night opening ceremonies, all of the riders were asked to enter the track with their helmets off so the fans could see the rider behind the helmet!
A great touch for the opening ceremonies!
Debi and the whole Bartosek family were asked to present the opening ceremonies!
Super Deb to the scene!!!!!!!
The Promoter of Pymatuning Raceway held the opening ceremonies with a great word of remembering all of our fallen heroes!
Then in true fashion of speeding all of us through some painful memories, Matt had let the skies open up just as the microphone was passed to Bebi for some thoughts and prayers!
If you are not familiar with the memorial race, every time Bebi plans to speak to the crowd about Matt at this race, it always sems to have a rain shower speed things through the pain. last year she wanted to show a video I made for the family ad it started to rain and this year in something that amazes me, as soon as she held the mic, it started to pour down rain.
There is only one way to describe this and that is true of what Debi always says; "Matt is watching us right now and he dosent want us to shed a tear in his memory he just wants us to skip the painful memories and get to the racing!"
I have to totally agree with those words!!!!!
The horses are brought out onto the track for the national anthem and it was just great to see how well racing and recognition is carried on at this track!
Thye rain left the track another muddy mess for the CRA two wheeled Pro's to race on!
I thought we might have to use this machine to get around on but the track held up for some racing even though conditions were not at their best!
With the storm hitting and the electric in bad shape the promoter had let the Bikes run on the combined track but by the time the ATV's were up, the back section to the far middle of the pic near the woods would be too muddy and not lit well enough to run both tracks! So the ATV races would run on a shortened version of the combined track!
The riders were entering the gate for the main and ready for the ever so important holeshot in the mud!
#122 Dustin Royer