[Healeys] Welch's death

[Healey Bruce]

How terribly tragic and sad.  

Bruce
Brea, CA
1960 BN7

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Welch's death

 The news of the death of Denis Welch is an unbelievable tragedy. The idea
that someone would actually get killed in a vintage racing accident is so
unlikely that we really have to ask what happened. I hope that vintage
racing organizations all over the world are asking for details on Welch's
death to learn whether it might have been prevented by better safety
equipment (English drivers often choose not to equip vintage race cars with
modern style roll bars, and even safety harnesses because they aren't
"period"), less aggressive driving and more active stewardship (English
racing has a deserved reputation for being more aggressive than what we
tolerate in the U.S.), bad track design, or just the luck of the situation.

To have a driver of this level of
experience die in a frequently raced style of race car is just unacceptable.
G.

 

Gary Anderson
Editor-in-Chief, The Star Magazine
Mercedes-Benz Club of
America
Editor at Large, Austin-Healey Magazine
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