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> From: Josh Cockey[SMTP:jcockey@crosslink.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 1997 11:50 AM
> To: wheeltowheel@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM
> Subject: RE: Vintage fatality
>
> At 09:15 5/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >Subject: Vintage fatality
> >Author: Dale Disque <DaleD@JUDDS.com> at NBS-Internet-Gateway
> >Date: 5/19/97 9:05 AM
> >
> >I heard that a Porsche driver was killed in a Vintage accident at
> Summit
> >Point yesterday -- any details? Are their safety specs the same as
> the
> >SCCA club racing?
> >
> >
> >Dale Disque
> >WDC Region
> >ITB #33
> >
>
> Near the end of the Vintage 1 hour Wyer Cup Enduro Race for cars
> raced
> between 1966 and 1980 at the Jefferson 500 event at Summit Point
> Raceway
> yesterday, a Chevron B21 driven by John Legat of Carol Stream, IL
> attempted
> to pass a BMW at turn 2. The 2 cars made contact and went off track
> drivers
> left between turns 2 and 3. The driver of the Chevron was killed
> instantly
> on impact with the bank and trees about 80-100 feet off track on what
> is
> essentially a straight portion of the circuit. The driver of the BMW
> (whose name I don't have as he was not on my early entry list)
> received no
> apparent injuries other then bruises from his harness. F & C
> personnel
> were on the scene in seconds and EV was dispatched immediately, but
> there
> was nothing they could have done to save him. The race was checkered
> early
> under full course double-yellow by the stewards.
>
> These cars race under SVRA rules and requirements which are
> similar but
> not identical to SCCA rules.
>
> Josh
>
>
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