Originally Posted by pjcampbell

I got moved to Juniors at the last minute, I was driving "COMM2" which is the "out front" USAC official. It's the cop, the pace car, then us. We get some action if there is a break...

Luckily some crazy kid jumps right at the neutral stop/race start banner and takes off, 45 miles on his own. We are thinking wow what is this kid doing. He is hammering away. We kept giving him his time which at one point was 5 minutes! Somewhere around the 35 mile mark he is tiring a bit. We get notice that the pack is closing in.... but still 2 minutes away, then at mile 45 I see 3 guys in my rear view mirror which I had no warning for. In fact the pack is still no where near, this is what they meant apparently.

2 of them are the break away artists teammates. The road tilted up and our star break away artist gets dropped almost immediately. They keep looking for him but he was way back already. The finish ended up being the breakaway's teammate, another guy, another teammate, and after riding 65 miles alone, a 4th place finish for our break away man... 2 or 3 minutes ahead of the pack. nice!!!