1997 Future Heroes AMA Amateur Dirt Track Races - 5-Page Motorcycle Article

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1997 Future Heroes AMA Amateur Dirt Track Races - 5-Page Motorcycle Article
Original, vintage magazine article
Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each page
Condition: Good
Clomp! Scraaapc. Clomp!
Scraaapc.
The noise is like someone chug-
ging a shovel across a concrete
driveway. In fact, it’s the sound
of the future of dirt-track racing—the
noise ol a young boy scraping the steel
shoe on his left foot as he walks to the
edge of a Central Indiana short-track.
Shielding his eyes against the glare of
the hot mid-day sun, he surveys the
prepped surface of the dirt oval. He and
hundreds of other racers will soon shut the*
quest to become the best amateur dirt-
trackers in America.
The competition will be tough. The
turnout for the* 1997 AMA Amateur Dirt-
Track Nationals is huge. As a result, an
impressive 41 heat races are scheduled
for this opening day, the first of five (lav’s
of racing in four different disciplines.
That's a lot of racing—a lot of exhilara-
tion. and an equal amount of
disappointment. But in the end. after the
short-track, TT. half-mile and mile races,
16 new Grand National Champions will
be crowned from 200 racers representing
the best of the Amateur and Youth ranks.
It could all seem pretty daunting, but if
there's any pressure on Hie racers assem-
bled at the Bartholomew’ Count}7
Fairgrounds in Columbus, Indiana, for -
the first of many rider meetings this
.week you wouldn’t know it
Kids are horsing around in the pits/
vyhjje workers circle the track in an old
water truck spraying down the clay oval.
Next door, the county fair is in full swing
and amid the 4-H signs, corn dog stands,
feed troughs and livestock pens; ah
XR750 Harley bellows a throaty rasp that...
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