[Rizzo]

And this one time.... at the Dallas GP (my first event) I was leaning on the wall (rookie mistake) and one of the WSC cars came into the wall backwards. When I woke up there was another rookie photographer putting my broken 300mm 2.8 and Nikon FM body in my lap asking if I was okay. The safety workers were attending to the car and thankfully NEVER noticed me.

I gathered my thoughts and a put the birdies flying around my forehead back in their cage and trudged on to shoot victory circle.

When I get home I couldn't breath very well and had a serious headache. Went to the minor emergency care center and had broken two ribs and a minor concussion from clanging my head on the sidewalk where I landed.

I don't preform those stunts anymore.

I do recall, some years later, at Laguna well before all the safety mods on the back straight approaching the Corkscrew thinking that we had no business being there. At that time there was no fencing and the barrier was three feet tall or so. When the Indy Car/ CART/Champ Car came though there at speed it was like getting punched as the wind blew past.

I did get a few shots of Johnny O bailing out of the Corvette at Laguna when it was bar-b-qued many years ago. Feeling the heat from that is one thing I will never forget.

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