Just so no one thinks that safety was ignored after the incident. . .
As soon as I realized what had happened I went and got my wife, who is a
CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist [it's easy to put 'em to sleep,
the hard part is waking them up] ), checked Bob as he headed off course ( I
assume to get tools to remove the extra large wing shaped roll bar). Bob
answered various questions correctly. Perhaps one or two bruises. He also
said as he felt the car go over, he crossed his arms together, so they would
not "flap" about. I guess it was slow enough to prepare for the inevitable.
We had just given Bob some homemade cookies before the start of the heat, so
hopefully, they were used later for medicinal purposes. :^)
I'm cc'ing Bob, so that we might hear from the "horse's mouth". He may still
be in transit. =8^O
Matt Murray
mattm@optonline.net
----- Original Message -----
> I can only echo what Danielle and Gary have already said here.
> However, it was obvious to me from the get-go Thursday morning that
> the wind was going to cause some problems. It was gusting out of the
> north at 25-30 MPH! The question was really, "Who and when?"
> When Bob Barone's #64 CK-95 came around the turn and down the hill on
> his first run, the wind got under that big wing and just tossed him
> over on his top.
>
> The wing looked like a crumpled piece of aluminum foil and the left
> front suspension was knocked way out of whack. Other than that, the
> car and Bob were both fine. After the course workers rolled the car
> back over onto its wheels and helped push it off course, Bob removed
> the damaged wing and made his remaining two Thursday runs in what was
> left of the car. On Friday, he switched over to Gerald Shields' TUI
> and made his second-day runs in that car without incident.
>
> John (Old Fartz & TLS #37) Lieberman
>
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