Daytona 1973

Here's the shot of Mark Brelsford at his very first race defending his brand new #1 plate. He recovered from this, but never regained the drive he had up to this point. Fortunately, his family wisely invested his earnings in San Francisco real estate, and he retired to Alaska, where he still resides today...

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Anonymous said...

Back then, each year of AMA racing kicked off with a TT & a ST @ Houston's Astrodome.

Brelsford was there.

He placed 6th in the TT main event , and did not qualify for the ST.

( For the ST, the H-D team was running their 350 Aermacchi Sprints, so a little down on power they were ! )