this just breaks my heart


Fast Freddy

Fast Freddy

GPS'D 225 MPH
Mark II Lifetime
Aug 5, 2005
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Avondale, Arizona
i wish there was something i could do to have changed this > http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2010/...-with-ride-at-texas-motor-speedway-dies-in-c/

this guy should have gone for a ride with me. i would have made sure that this would not have happened to him :frown
 
Now, THAT is just totally sad.
 
Empty Pockets said:
Now, THAT is just totally sad.
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i'll take more risks and push it harder when it is just me in the car by myself. but when a passenger rides shotgun with me their safety comes first and my ego rides in the backseat. especially if the person riding shotgun with me is a person who is not involved with motorsports on a level like i am. and even more so if that person is very young or old. if this car had a mechanical failure then driver should be forgiven, otherwise he needs to be banned from race tracks.
 
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A wonderful moment in time that turned very sad.

Not knowing the details I care not to speculate as such I will leave my commments as shared.

Shadowman
 
I believe people at the track are saying the heard a tire "pop."
 
Beware

Be alert guys, this stuff does happen. We lost a PCA instructor, Tom Norby, at Carolina Motorsports Park (Kershaw, SC) a couple of months back. Tom was my son's student several years back. Sad loss. Freak accident by all accounts.
 
sucks! thats all I have to say about that.
 
Very sad. Could have happened just as easy driving home from the days events. You just never know. I would rather go out like that then lay in a bed for years slowly dying. I hope he was having a blast until his last seconds!
 
shelbyelite said:
I hope he was having a blast until his last seconds!
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Amen. That's the way to go, great balls of fire.
 
Right front tire blew. Car shot up into the SAFER barrier (a la Earnhart). Without a HANS, I'm sure at a 120 mph, the poor guy got his head and neck snapped pretty well. Fubar, Matt (427Aggie), and I have run laps out there at TMS for a charity event. On the banking you can effortlessly get up to 140-150 mph...like driving around inside a teacup. Unfortunately at those speeds bad things happen if a tire blows. RIP
 
RIP :usa
 
Wow I just read the article and the driver of the car "Andre Vandeburg" is a guy that I roadraced motorcycles with for years. He was an exceptional expert level motorcycle racer, and all around good guy and from what I understand an exceptional driver too. He is an instructor at TWS for the "Driving Experience" I believe and yes the car blew a fron tire. And as stated above a very sad day for the passenger and his family

Steve
 
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