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Jim Austhof's is sure getting a Baptism of Fire. His description, of
course, is accurate, as is his counsel concerning the Hans devise. Not sure
it
would have been quite as effective in this case because of the 'side impact',
but there certainly would have been increased stability. Vintage racing is
not
a high speed parade. Its risks are serious. The biggest thing I was
reminded of is the fact that when we race we make a lot of split second
decisions.
And we don't get to do them over. Serious stuff!
I had raced many laps with Dr. Surjit Hermon. In my opinion, he was very
conservative, raced at 8/10ths, and was particularly courteous to other
racers.
I was in that Friday practice session as well, and have to assume he may
have missed a waving yellow and standing white at the Thunder Valley worker
station. You can't see the apex to 13 coming up that hill, and I suspect he
was
surprised by the commotion and lost control of his car. So sad these things
should happen.
As such, we choose not to do the 'missing man' pace lap in honor of Jack
Drews on Sunday morning.
Bill Dentinger
In a message dated 9/22/2008 7:44:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
susank@141.com writes:
This was on the MGVR Yahoo list:
*****************************
I have sad news to report from the Vintage Fall Festival at Road America
this past weekend. We have had another fatality in the vintage racing
community. We lost driver Surjit Hermon on Friday afternoon in an
incident near turn 12 (under the now non existent Billy Mitchell
bridge). Surjit lost control of his Eastlake 11, skidded right-left-
right and impacted a Mini Cooper which was well off course and in the
process of being hooked up for a flat tow. The safety workers had to run
for their lives when they looked up from trying to find a attachment
point for the flat tow and saw a skidding car coming at them.
My second weekend as a Driver Committee Chairman - second fatality!
Watch your flags, remember the 80% rule, and if you were contemplating a
Hans device let this be a warning.
Jim Austhof
Red #1 MGB
*****************************
Susan
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