Pitarresi: A good day at Unadilla

I am not a motor sports guy.

 

I admire the courage, daring, endurance, and incredible sheer skills the drivers have, but it really never has been my thing. Too noisy, maybe, or too many fumes. I don’t know.

 

However, I thoroughly enjoyed myself covering the AMA/Unadilla Retro Motocross National today at Unadilla Valley Sports Center. It was a great spectacle, with that challenging, winding, up-and-down 1.5-mile track and 20,000 or more people spread over the scene, and the riders are just tremendous in terms of athletic ability and strategy.

 

Unadilla’s signature element is Gravity Cavity, where the riders launch their bikes high into the air and far down the track, but there are plenty of other jumps, hairpin turns, and climbs that challenge skills. It was great stuff.

 

It was a long day, and I might have left New Berlin a little more deaf than I already was, but it was a good time.