[Fot] Sad news from Hallett

[Kas Kastner]

Just a wonderful great great guy.  I hope he is fitted  with a turbocharger
and  never loses another race.  He deserves to win  them all. We all have been
winners having been around him.

Never Be beaten by Equipment
Kas Kastner
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Susan Kahler
  To: Fot at autox.team.net
  Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:46 PM
  Subject: [Fot] Sad news from Hallett


  Hey everyone,

  This was posted on the CVAR group on Yahoo.  For those of you who have
  been to Hallett, you will remember Mike (general manager and then owner
  of the Hallett Motor Racing Circuit) as being very involved, genuinely
  caring and with an absolute love of the sport.  I was scheduled for
  driver's school with his sons (who ran it) in 1998 or so, and they
  missed putting me on the schedule somehow, so they went to do something
  else that weekend.  Mike gave me a one-on-one driver school, showing me
  the Spitfire lines around the track (he was an ex-Spit racer) in his
  Chevy-powered Jag, then letting me drive the beast.  He would check in
  on me over the weekend and see how I was doing, and give me tips and
  pointers.  He always came to say hi when we were at the track, if I
  didn't get to him first.  I will miss him.

  ***************************

  With a heavy heart I pass this information along to you all.
  Mike Stephens passed away at home after a long illness on Saturday
  evening (6/23/07). As most of you know Mike had been ill for several
  months and now suffers no more.
  Mike was an old friend from my SCCA and NASA days and continuing
  through current CVAR events, he will be missed.
  Our thoughts are with Connie, Scott, Shane and all of the Stephens
  family. That extended family included hundreds of racers from all over
  the country including many from CVAR.
  Mike was a true patron of the sport of road racing and has left a
  legacy in HMRC that will be a part of the sport that he loved for a
  very long time.
  Bob Green

  ****************************

  R.I.P., Mike.

  Susan


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