JOHNSON PRO STOCK BIKE IN THE DIRT
Mon, 2008-09-15 12:28
When a guy named Stumpy has to tell you that you’ve won, something’s wrong.
Steve Johnson doesn’t necessarily agree.
Stumpy is the lead ESPN2 camera man in charge of filming the winners.
Johnson lost focus in the shutdown area after winning his second consecutive NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle event at the NHRA Carolinas Nationals, and instead of bringing his bike to a stop; he became mesmerized with the camera crew headed his way.
He realized he needed to stop just feet from the sand trap. When a guy named Stumpy has to tell you that you’ve won, something’s wrong.
Steve Johnson doesn’t necessarily agree.
Stumpy is the lead ESPN2 camera man in charge of filming the winners.
Johnson lost focus in the shutdown area after winning his second consecutive NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle event at the NHRA Carolinas Nationals, and instead of bringing his bike to a stop; he became mesmerized with the camera crew headed his way.
He realized he needed to stop just feet from the sand trap.
“I have the blinders on and I am focused as to where I am going,” Johnson admitted, not knowing that Krawiec had fouled.
“I said, ‘How did he get so far out on me?”
“I was going down the track and kept wondering how he got out on me so much. I did see my little win light, but I wasn’t convinced I had won. I kept going and then I saw the camera guy moving my way.”
There was one problem, Johnson was still rolling at an estimated 160-mph.
“I was looking for everything else and I was headed to the sand-trap hot,” Johnson said. “I wasn’t concerned with stopping at the time and I did not know I had won the race.
“I grabbed the brake and the bike spun sideways. You love that on a dirt bike, but not so much on a drag bike.”
Steve Johnson doesn’t necessarily agree.
Stumpy is the lead ESPN2 camera man in charge of filming the winners.
Johnson lost focus in the shutdown area after winning his second consecutive NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle event at the NHRA Carolinas Nationals, and instead of bringing his bike to a stop; he became mesmerized with the camera crew headed his way.
He realized he needed to stop just feet from the sand trap. When a guy named Stumpy has to tell you that you’ve won, something’s wrong.
Steve Johnson doesn’t necessarily agree.
Stumpy is the lead ESPN2 camera man in charge of filming the winners.
Johnson lost focus in the shutdown area after winning his second consecutive NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle event at the NHRA Carolinas Nationals, and instead of bringing his bike to a stop; he became mesmerized with the camera crew headed his way.
He realized he needed to stop just feet from the sand trap.
“I have the blinders on and I am focused as to where I am going,” Johnson admitted, not knowing that Krawiec had fouled.
“I said, ‘How did he get so far out on me?”
“I was going down the track and kept wondering how he got out on me so much. I did see my little win light, but I wasn’t convinced I had won. I kept going and then I saw the camera guy moving my way.”
There was one problem, Johnson was still rolling at an estimated 160-mph.
“I was looking for everything else and I was headed to the sand-trap hot,” Johnson said. “I wasn’t concerned with stopping at the time and I did not know I had won the race.
“I grabbed the brake and the bike spun sideways. You love that on a dirt bike, but not so much on a drag bike.”
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