I ran Louisville a couple of times. That track surface was really hard on leading surfaces like fork tubes, number plates, helmet shields, leathers.......everything. But it was a blast. Feet up, fork lock slides, WFO. You just didn't want to get caught it someone's roost. Slow your a$$ down big time. I loved the half miles and miles. Short track was fun but more like a mini-war every time you went out on the track. Mainly ran Yamaha's since a local shop helped me out. Got to run another guy's Harley a few times. Novices and Juniors were all the "hungry" guys trying to get up to the Expert class. Kill or be killed attitudes for us hungry guys. Whatever it took. Never had very many laps to dial one in or prove yourself. Total chaos from green to checker. Loved it. I quit racing about the time they started putting brakes on the flat track bikes. Family coming and needed to be responsible anyway and quit running all over the United States. Hated the brakes. Messed up the racing in my opinion. Saw more guys hurt due to brakes than without. Other than having a family.......If I hadn't got old and fat.........I would still be flat tracking. Thought about some vintage racing but there isn't enough around here to do it. I still have my short track bike setting in my shop. Still got my hot shoe too. And nope........no limp but I got banged up plenty of times over my flat track career. Due to racing flat track bikes, I usually have a nice warm fuzzy feeling setting inside a caged race car all strapped in.