[Fot] Remembering John Hasty

Thu Jan 23 10:22:04 MST 2025

At the USVGP at Watkins Glen in 2019, I was standing on the podium for “big Triumph 4 cylinders” along with John Styduhar, when John Hasty was making his way up.  John S gave me a nudge, and said, give John a hand onto the podium!  
So, I helped John Hasty up, and the 3 of us enjoyed the moment.   I had not met John Hasty before that, but every time I saw him afterwards, without fail, he always thanked me for helping him up onto the podium that day!  Those thanks should belong with John S, in reality… but I was happy to help “lend a hand” and he was ever so thankful.  He really had that car flying, blowing by me hitting overdrive coming out of the toe of the boot, his speed defying age for sure.  Godspeed, John!

Dave Gott

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On Thursday, January 23, 2025, 11:54 AM, Larry Young via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:

 I met John when he contacted me about my TR3A racer. I think it was 2008. He said he found it on something like the 10 screen during a google search. He was already in his 70s. I wasn't sure he was a real "Triumph guy" (after all he had owned a Porsche). As it turned out, he was a very enthusiastic and durable Triumph racer, excellent driver, and continued the transformation of that car.
  - Larry

 On 1/23/2025 9:41 AM, Bob Kramer via Fot wrote:

 Henry 
  John was quite the steward of his cars. He bought his first yellow TR3 from Larry Young. It was my first race car and I had sold it in 2000 to another guy in our club. Larry bought from him for the 2003 season and started improving it immediately. Larry raced with us for around 5 years, long enough to use his engineering background to become a camshaft "master".  After he couldn't race anymore he sold the car to John in what might have been in 2008 or 2009. When I saw the car again at the first Pitt Race K Cup I almost didn't recognize it, it was so much better prepared. It later met its end and I think John built another. 
    Bob Kramer   

  On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 9:24 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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