S4ordie

Thanks for posting Bill. Sobering and eloquent. Condolences to the family and friends.

IcemanG17

found an article about it
http://www.elynews.com/articles/2011...ews/news10.txt

Herman K

On our recent 2200 miles round trip to Grand Junction we where held up for 2 hour due to a fatal accident of an “Eclipse” being hit by an 18 wheeler head on in sharp turn in the mountains around “Blue Mesa”.

Ones we got the clearance to move again we had to drive by the wreckage I was inclined to take pictures with the idea of showing a lesson learned but I couldn’t out of respect to the unknown soul that last his life.

We all know it doesn’t take much and most of the time only a split second between life and dead. My thoughts go out to all those situations and those left behind.

Bill with all your miles behind you and in front of you I share your feelings for the loss of these fellow racers.

Randy V

Damn.

jorj7

Bill expressed the feelings of the day way better then I could. We started the day with such hope of
reaching 200 mph, but life has a way of putting things into perspective.


The 160 class (Tim's 928 is in the back behind the trailers)

sweanders

Thank you for sharing Bill.

Tahoe Shark

I could not have expressed my feelings any better Bill.

Before we left we released our trailer driver and he drove the families truck and trailer back to Las Vegas. I can't even imagine his trip. Thanks Dabney.

Cheryl and I hardly talked on our 8 hour trip home. Our condolences to Rick and Merle's family's. Very sad.

"There but for the grace of God, go I".

Charley B

You missed your calling as a writer, Bill. A very moving and eloquent rendering of the tragedy. Very sad.

Richard S

Bill, thanks for sharing that. ORR is a small community, and we all go out knowing some may not return. It really is gutwrenching to be so close to the other participants and experience such a tragedy.

Rich

RFJ

So sorry for their family's,yes Bill has a way with words.

Mark Anderson

That's terrible to hear. I did this event the first 2 years and decided it was just to dangerous for me (compared to close coarse racing)
I wish there was a way to make it safer.

MGW-Fla

Very sad and sobering indeed.

whiteNSXs

Very sobering and could have happened to anyone.
Thanks for the post, Bill.
Steve

sportster_restorer

I might get flamed to no end on this.

I agree with everyone's posts here, thoughts and prayers go out to the family that has to carry on. It won't be easy.

However, I hope the guys who died in the accident went out the way they wanted to. Everyone knows racing of any kind is dangerous. Didn't Hemmingway say that that racing and bullfighting were the only real sports, the rest were just games?

Everyone has to die, not everyone really lives. And I hope these guys got to live their dream. I've worked a lot of places in the world, and most of them sucked. A whole lot of the world just hangs on everyday. I've seen people working 12+ hours a day for companies that didn't give a damn about them, and seen the life disappearing from their eyes as they spent the better part of their days in concrete canyons.

I like to read Steve Jobs' address he gave at Stanford to keep things in perspective. Helps you understand the craziness of life.

So I agree with the sympathies sent out to the racers family. But I do pray that they went out the way they wanted to. I road raced motorcycles for a while when I was young, back in the Jurassic Era. At most races I thought for a second, what if this is the race where I buy it, big? Don't come home? Every time I said if that's what in the cards for me, at least I go out enjoying myself. I think sometimes that's a pretty square deal from life.

So once again, sympathy for the family. But I hope those guys got to live their dreams, and do something and feel some joy and exhilaration that few ever get to. And say they got a square deal.

deutschmick

Thank you Bill, for sharing this. Very sad.