During a nostalgic weekend, Kevin Schwantz was on hand to regale us with the inside story of his final career victory here in 1994, when he had to hold the throttle open down the straights with his left hand - despite a dislocated wrist - just to shake some feeling back into his fractured right hand.
Trying to bring these voters back into the Democratic fold, Obama left the stage and hit the streets of historic Abingdon to shake hands and hobnob in an old-fashioned soda shop.
But he fears that unless a major shake-up occurs in the market as a result of an international dispute, Congress would be left without a clear path to take on the matter.