[Fot] Ed Barnard passed away

Thu Sep 14 13:55:03 MDT 2017

Great piece Bob.

I Sid not know him.  But, I am glad to read that you still get the tummy
thing. I sure do.

Am retiring from racing. Had the satisfaction of lowering my lap time at
Pacific Raceways from a previous best, set 4 years ago at 1:42.9, to a
1:38.7. Qualified second in a 35 car field. That time is the best of any TR
I know of at PR.  I let 4 pesky [read real aggressive racing for
championship] Miatas past after turn 3, but did hold lead till then.
OD not working so eventually got passed by a 240z. Finished a satisfying
5th.

My car will soon be for sale. A relevant message soon.

On Sep 14, 2017 9:30 AM, "Bob Kramer via Fot" <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:

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> I’m not on the FOT list so I do not know if this news has made it to the
> community. I saw on on Facebook last night that Ed Barnard passed away
> unexpectedly Monday night. I knew he had a complicated medical situation
> but I don't know what happened. He leaves behind a blended family including
> Willie and Josh who we've met many times at the track and a bunch of folks
> who relied on him for everything from tech advice to restoring cars. He
> will be missed at the track and in the Triumph community.
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> I first met Ed via the South Central VTR Regionals. I was still in the
> start up phase of the Hill Country Triumph Club, and combining roles as
> club president and doing the dot matrix printed RAGTOP monthly. I didn't
> know Ed at the time as but all the clubs shared newsletters and Ed handled
> the duties for the Red River Triumph Club. We had occasionally communicated
> about the various events going on around the state. I think he worked for
> Jeff Sloan’s British Auto Specialists at the time and was still racing his
> Spitfire. Anyway, in the RRTC newsletter, Ed had said some
> disparaging things about TR7's and being a defender of all things Triumph I
> called him to task for it. We were still a very small club at the time.
> Austin was in the early stages of massive growth and our younger
> demographics meant that we had a number of members with TR7's and 8's. We
> met and talked it out at the regional held in Houston and became friends.
> He was mostly kidding about the TR7's. I'm sure they grew on him over time
> as they have for pretty much everyone else.
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> I really didn't get to know Ed until I started racing with CVAR. He was
> always at TWS helping in a variety of ways. He helped racers, helped the
> club and having an affinity for Triumphs he migrated to the Triumph pits
> daily. I always found it humorous, and I hope I don't offend anyone here,
> that some guys loved the work that Ed did on their race cars and some,
> rightfully or not,  blamed him for the stuff that went wrong. The same
> guys, in a different year, might trade places and opinions about Ed's
> workmanship. The truth is he was a great resource. It's racing, stuff
> breaks. It isn't easy and you know what, if we are honest we know that we
> screw stuff up all the time in racing. Move on and smile, that's what Ed
> did.
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> As the years went by I drove many a lap around TWS knowing that Ed was on
> a corner cheering on the Triumphs. We are not pro racers. Nobody is keeping
> stats. We race mostly for our own satisfaction and maybe to earn a little
> respect inside our clan. If you haven't ever raced you don't know the how
> it feels to get a race car with competitors all around you. Even after
> you've done it a hundred times the doubts and nerves still creep in.  You
> get a little sick to your stomach; probably from influxes of anticipation
> driven adrenaline. The whistle blows, we start the cars and during the pace
> lap it all gets replaced with focus. We are supposed to check out the flag
> stations on that lap but I don't ever recall seeing Ed,  but on the cool
> down lap there he would be, clapping his hands in approval.
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> That's how I will remember Ed.
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> Bob Kramer
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