Remnants

Riverside has at last completely disappeared, wholly obliterated under new development. No longer can you find your way to the last remaining section of the old International Raceway and pluck out a souvenir chunk of asphalt, as I wrote about doing in the VR of September 1999.

By coincidence, I suppose, that was the same year the French tore down the ruins of Rouen’s pits. At least a visitor whose soul vibrates to hallowed ground can still drive, as I once did, through the downhill swerves beyond, where Fangio used to hurl his Maserati into full-blooded powerslides.