[Fot] Remembering John Hasty

[Scott Janzen]

I always made a point of dropping by and talking to John when we were at the same race weekend, always at Summit Point and sometimes in Pittsburgh.  I think the last time I saw him was this past Spring at the Jefferson 500.  John was supported by John Baucom (Motorsports), who always had that TR3 (and its replacement Tr3 #2) looking great and running well.  Hasty told me he planned to celebrate his 89th birthday at Roebling Road with VDCA this past December - didn’t quite make it. 

I often cite John as my role model in vintage racing - I hope I’m still racing in 20+ years, as he was.  Five years ago, he was a front runner.  Even this past year, still solidly mid-pack or better.  He was my image of a true southern gentleman lawyer, and I mean that in the best possible way!

RIP, John.  I’ll run some laps in your honor at Summit Point this Spring.

Scott Janzen

On Jan 23, 2025, at 9:54 AM, yellow04 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:

I just found out that a couple months back we lost our resident octogenarian, John Hasty. Those of us who race the eastern part of the States have probably met him at the track, piloting a yellow TR3. John was always great fun to chat with, his extensive background in motorcycle racing usually came up in some way or another. After "aging out" on two wheels he decided it would be a better idea to race on four wheels and was still on track with us last year at the age of 88 years young! At the spring race at VIR I see he was still right in the mix, finishing 12th out of 29 runners in the Saturday race.

Trying to remember when John arrived in the scene, I searched my archives. In 2011, Don Marshall nominated John and forwarded this introduction to the FOT.

"I've been into racing most anything that has a motor and wheels since the 40's when in high school building hot rods. Took off a few years while in college, but beginning in 1959 bought my first sports car, an Austin Healy 3000 w/o a jump seat, next a MGB, then a Porsche 912, then a Merc 280SL, now an Alfa Spider for the street and my TR3A for the track. Crewed for a friend in the 60's with a bug-eye sprite in SCCA events then got into motorcycles. I road motorcycle road-racers for about 10 years and when I retired from riding, built and tuned 250cc GP road-racers with a rider on the AMA pro circuit for about 7 years. We did pretty well, never finished worse than 5th. in overall standings and won the national
championship in 1990. My good friend Ceasar Cone got me back into sports car racing and when it came time to buy a car I decided that if I was going vintage racing I wanted a truly vintage car and I think the TR3A is a perfect truly vintage car."

Our kind of people, no doubt. You will be missed, my friend...

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/33758028/john-henderson-hasty

Henry Frye
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