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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>You learned well Henry. When are you going to start running wire wheels? Would look good on that yellow car.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dean</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">yellow04 via Fot</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, May 4, 2022 8:13 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Fot] RIP - Don Brick</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Responding to Brian McEldowney, the new owner of the Don Brick TR4, </p><p class=MsoNormal>prompted me to do a google search. I just realized we lost Don six weeks </p><p class=MsoNormal>ago on March 27, 2022.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The last of the original Beady Eye gang. Sad.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>While the stories of the shenanigans Bill, Bob and Don got into are the </p><p class=MsoNormal>stuff of legend, there is one story about Don I will never forget.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>More years ago that I care to admit, I am beginner racer who bought a </p><p class=MsoNormal>derelict TR4 racecar and was trying desperately to figure out how to </p><p class=MsoNormal>prepare it so it would finish weekends, and more importantly trying to </p><p class=MsoNormal>figure out the art and science of race craft. I show up at Grattan for </p><p class=MsoNormal>the first time, and I am not sure I can say I was struggling, but the </p><p class=MsoNormal>Beady Eye boys thought I needed a primer on the track. VSCDA had a </p><p class=MsoNormal>practice of doing lunch time parade laps at Grattan, so they cooked up </p><p class=MsoNormal>the idea that I needed to get driven around the track by their resident </p><p class=MsoNormal>hot shoe, Don Brick. Yes, Don was the fastest of the bunch.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>These parade laps were done in race cars, and the premise was the racers </p><p class=MsoNormal>could put their family, friends, crew, etc. in the passenger seat to get </p><p class=MsoNormal>a birds eye view of the track. No passing, just some leisurely laps. </p><p class=MsoNormal>Apparently, Don didn’t get the memo... Don and I climb into his TR4, my </p><p class=MsoNormal>memory is telling me we had no fire suits or helmets, and proceed to the </p><p class=MsoNormal>false grid. We are waived onto the track, and Don nails it. We get </p><p class=MsoNormal>decent speed for turn one, and Don is narrating. "This is where I </p><p class=MsoNormal>usually have to brake, but since we are not at speed yet...", he brakes </p><p class=MsoNormal>late, turns into 1 with tires at full chat. We slide around turn one, </p><p class=MsoNormal>and on the little straight heading for 2, we come up on the first car </p><p class=MsoNormal>doing parade lap speed, Don just passes them! At this point, Don is at </p><p class=MsoNormal>racing speed, and he continues to narrate his way around the course </p><p class=MsoNormal>passing everybody. As we round the corner for the start/finish straight, </p><p class=MsoNormal>the flagger is waiting for us, and no surprise to me Don gets black </p><p class=MsoNormal>flagged. As we are going down the straight for turn 1, I tell Don I </p><p class=MsoNormal>don't think we are supposed to be going full tilt, everybody else is </p><p class=MsoNormal>going much slower. Don was not deterred, he needed to show me his </p><p class=MsoNormal>braking point for turn 1 at speed! We proceeded to do that second lap </p><p class=MsoNormal>way too fast, then Don dutifully pulled into pit lane and was directed </p><p class=MsoNormal>to the black flag station where he was given the stern warning that </p><p class=MsoNormal>lunchtime parade laps were not to be driven at speed. Don's reply with a </p><p class=MsoNormal>smile, "Oh, OK, I didn't know."</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anybody else remember running with Don and watching his red wire wheels? </p><p class=MsoNormal>Don insisted on running that same set of red painted wire wheels. He </p><p class=MsoNormal>claimed he finally got a set of wheels that didn't break spokes, so he </p><p class=MsoNormal>just kept running them. It was disconcerting to see Don in the seat </p><p class=MsoNormal>sawing on the steering wheel, and you could see the hubs on the car </p><p class=MsoNormal>moving with his motions, but the rim and tires couldn't keep up the </p><p class=MsoNormal>hubs, you could almost see the spokes stretching with every turn of the </p><p class=MsoNormal>steering wheel!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Farewell, my friend.</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>fot@autox.team.net</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>http://www.fot-racing.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html</p><p class=MsoNormal>Archive: http://autox.team.net/archive http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot</p><p class=MsoNormal>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/tr3a58dean@gmail.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>