Was there a decent turnout?
I heard that it was a full-venue sellout; I do know the grandstand level (or whatever they call the middle level with actual seats, as opposed to the track level with some portable grandstands where we were) was sold out a couple of weeks before the race. The promoter was telling reporters there were 8,000 folks there, and it felt like it. One of them, apparently, was Sonny Barger, there with the Cave Creek chapter of the Hell's Angels, who had a booth in the vendor area...
And cold -- our unseasonably cool & very windy spring held through the weekend, so I spent most of the day in my leather jacket, just to stay a little warm. Didn't get to show off my Ducati Mecchanica T-shirt much, but Joe Kopp did get a kick out of it when I was asking for his autograph after the race...