[Fot] Remembering John Hasty

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Oh, RIP John. Cool an d fast guy.

Cheers
Chris


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From: Fot <fot-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of yellow04 via Fot
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2025 3:55 PM
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Subject: [Fot] Remembering John Hasty

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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