[Vintage-race] could have been at the BRIC

[Don Queen]

It's a shame, this probably spells the end for all the fun parades at Reno,
Sonoma, Elkhart, etc.

Don Queen


On 6/18/07, N Smith <ngsmith101 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I was there a couple of cars behind that mess. I agree.
>
> Nick
>
>
> "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson at thicko.com> wrote:
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> {behavior:url(#default#VML);}                Well, at last year s BRIC, the
> race organizers were not to blame  just dumbass drivers. As we paraded to
> the town for the concours in our race cars, and even after one Mclaren had
> lost it, swerved off the road, and ended upside down in a creek, where they
> had to rescued  other McLarens were still doing burnouts on the crowd lined
> street. It was stupid. Something like what happened in TN could have easily
> happened here.
>
>    From: N Smith [mailto:ngsmith101 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 11:39 PM
> To: Carl McLelland; Wm. Severin Thompson; vintage-race at autox.team.net; '
> Team-Thicko at Autox.Team.Net'
> Subject: Re: [Vintage-race] could have been at the BRIC
>
>
>    I have not seen that drag racing accident story. That is not only is
> tragic but totally irresponsible on the promoters part. My sympathies go out
> to the families of the people affected by this. There will no doubt be
> justifiable lawsuits to follow.
>
>
>
>    Nick
>
>
>
> Carl McLelland <carlynneracing at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>    Just the opposite occurred at the 'parade' before the HMSA Reno
> (Nevada)
> Historic Races in May. Approx. 35 race cars assembled at the National Auto
> Museum on Wednesday, May 2nd. Reno Police Dept. was 'supposed to' have
> blocked
> all the intersections for the seven or eight block parade from the museum
> to
> Virginia Street where the cars were on display for three hours, then
> escort us
> back to the museum to load.
>
> For the parade 'to' Virginia Street we averaged about 5 miles per hour
> with
> stops every fifty feet or so. I was in my Lotus 61, directly behind me was
> a
> McLaren M10A F5000 and he was followed by a Gurney Eagle/Weslake F1 car. I
> would rather imagine they had some serious clutch overheating before we
> arrived. (Don't know about the others, but we three were getting pretty
> hot in
> the clutch department).
>
> About fifteen minutes before we were supposed to head back it started
> raining.
> Oh well, 'real' race cars race in the rain.... The problem: it was dark,
> and
> the side streets Reno PD led us on were equally dark! I don't know how the
> others handled it, but I damaged my skid plate when I dropped a wheel in
> one
> of Reno's "infamous pot holes".
>
> No problems with HMSA or the National Auto Museum... but Reno PD needs to
> work
> on their routine before next years parade.
> Carl Lotus 61 FF
>
> http://www.renohistorics.com/
> Subject: [Vintage-race] could have been at the BRIC
>
>
> Last year during the parade to town, the McLarens were doing burnouts, and
> the one guy ended up upside down in the ditch.
>
> Check this sad story out.
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19267840/
>
> Wm. Severin Thompson
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