Sad News

[aeronca65t]

Dan Lawson, the fellow who runs the Factory Five Cobra Challenge for NASA has died in a race at Buttonwood Raceway.


https://www.ffrchallenge.com/news-reports/2006/danlawson.html

 

[Bugeye58]

What can I say? Dan was a great guy, and will be missed.
It takes a little piece of our heart every time something like this happens. I guess all of us that race realize that when you strap in there are no guarantees, but that doesn't make it any easier to swallow.
Godspeed, Dan.
Jeff

 

[Basil]

Oh my, how sad! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[DrEntropy]

It stinks. I didn't know this guy, but it STILL makes me heart-sick. Knowing firsthand how something like this affects family and friends is really an unnerving trauma.

 

[Deleted member 3577]

Friends ask....."Aren't you afraid of dieing".

I say yea.......At the beginning of the race.

How do you convince them you are sane, while admitting that your passion can take your life.

Checking out in a race car sure beats being found dead during morning rounds in some nursing home.

Although this is probably little consolation to his family.

My sympathy to them....