FROM THE MEMBER ARCHIVES AHRMA MAG

Dennis Parrish - AHRMA #2985

This is the start of the Vintage Superbike Heavyweight race heading into turn 1 at Daytona in 2004. I’m in front on my ’74 Z1 and had won the class national championship my first year with AHRMA in 2003. This was my second time at Daytona, and the first time racing there in the dry. I believe I finished fourth both days. I remember being tucked in at speed on the banking, and the dips on the east banking were slamming my chest into the tank and then when I’d hit the rise after each dip, the wind would catch my chest and try to pop me up behind the bars. Great fun.

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