I lost my eye in 1977 when I was in my mid 20’s it was due to a motorcycle crash … I broke a lot of bones in that incident … I had been released from the hospital for about three weeks when I just had to get back in the wind … my bike was totaled so I asked one of my club brothers if I could take his bike for a spin … it must have looked really strange to see this guy riding a motorcycle with wires sticking out of his head and gauze bandages and a cast on his right leg … could only use the front brake so when I was in gravel it was a challenge stopping. The biggest problem I have now is when I’m walking in crowds … people don’t realize I can’t see on one side so they walk into me and sometimes give me a hard time because they think I deliberately bumped into them. On the road it’s not a problem because I adjust the mirrors to compensate, while racing we don’t use mirrors but we have dedicated lanes. It’s kind of funny because even though I am missing my left eye I prefer the right lane, outside groove. When I’m left lane I prefer the inside groove even when I launch from the outside so I tend to move over to the inside after I launch … not a good practice … costs me time and in between groves you don’t have good cohesion. Being close to the wall at 100 plus MPH makes me nervous when I can’t see it, generally when I make my move to the inside I’m at about the 150’ mark but I really need to stop doing it because it costs me almost 1/10th of a second in my ET … that’s like an eternity in drag racing.