THE BOLOGNAHOT ROD

摘要

The booming staccato roils through the daytona tri-oval a full 5 seconds before the Ducati hurtles along the bottom of the banking, the pilot flat on the gas tank well past the first braking marker. He pops up, brakes clenched and the Cycle magazine logo jumps off his white Bates leathers. Announcer Richard Chambers' voice floods the Speedway: "It's Cook Neilson on the Ducati, all by himself into Turn 1. Me pitches the bike through Turn 2, past the armeo and pins it toward the international Horseshoe. I was here 30 years ago when Cook ran away from the best Supcrbike riders in the nation on the Phi! Schilling-built Old Blue...it looks like he hasn't lost a step!"