[Fot] Remembering John Hasty

Thu Jan 23 12:25:59 MST 2025

Here's that podium at the Glen.
mike h (not on it.....)

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM David Gott via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
wrote:

>
> 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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