It was about as informal as it sounded -- just a bunch of friends in the NASCAR industry looking for an excuse to ride their motorcycles, usually from one event weekend to the next. Kyle Petty and a few others biked from Dover to a test in New Hampshire, stopping in New York City and Maine along the way. They rode to Pocono, where Petty won the race. By that fall, their numbers had swelled to include driver Harry Gant, crew chiefs Waddell Wilson and Robin Pemberton, track promoter Eddie Gossage and others trekking from Rockingham to Phoenix for the penultimate event of the year.
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