Another little anecdote from the weekend so far. On Thursday evening after we eventually were allowed into the paddock, usual race circuit chaos, and had unloaded, Werner decided to take his little pit bike for a ride and came back wheelying the bike all through the paddock. I told him you will get yourself banned, and we both laughed. Sure enough, yesterday he got his ban, not for doing wheelies in the paddock but repeating the antic all along the start finish straight, in front of the grandstand, during the scooter and 50cc 'Parade', despite an official furiously waving at him to stop. Werner of course chose to ignore him. Needless to say, said official was waiting for him when he came in off the circuit and unceremoniously ripped the wrist band off Werner, and sternly announced, "no more riding for you this weekend."
Despite a certain amount of pleading and apologies the official remained adamant, you're banned. However, Werner 'appealed' to the head of the ASI, taking Irena along as female support, i.e. flash her eyelids etc, and after showing a bit of contrition and agreeing not to do it again, he relented and gave Werner his permission to ride again. A comment was made by one of the officials that they had also witnessed an unidentified rider, on a Suzuki, doing the same thing, to which Werner replied, 'see I'm not the only one'. Little did they know, he was said unidentified Suzuki rider!
