I was thumbing through an old issue of Roadracing World when I noted photos from a WERA event at Indianapolis Raceway Park shot by a photographer named Lawrence Doe. In those days racing photographers were few and far between and I knew about all of them, especially if they were shooting a WERA race. Yet I didn’t recall this Lawrence Doe. As I looked through my own negatives from that race I realized that the photos used in the Roadracing World article were mine. I was Lawrence Doe! It happened 20 years ago, but I honestly did not remember using a pseudonym when submitting photos for publication. The only answer I could come up with was I was working as primary contributor at competing American Roadracing at the time and perhaps I didn’t want my bosses there knowing I was contributing to rival RRW. I certainly didn’t pick the alias of Lawrence Doe. I can only surmise that RRW editor John Ulrich came up with that name as somewhat of an inside joke. Even though John gave me my first decent paying gig covering the WERA National Endurance Series for Cycle News, once he started running his own publication we always quibbled over how much I would be paid for articles. To his credit John always paid me fair compensation for my submissions, but at the same time he took the opportunity to let me know that as a result of our bargaining I was the highest paid contributor he had. So the “Lawrence Doe” pseudonym he dreamed up for me was probably his funny dig at our oft wrangling editor/contributor relationship. — Larry Lawrence