Re: [ST] ouch...video

[Terry Lewis <tertius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having done quite a bit of cornerworking myself, that was pretty tough to
watch. There was absolutley no way the worker should have been out there, on
the line, while bikes were still running around. That was a perfect example
of when to call for race control to red flag the event. I don't know what
the rider was thinking, or what signals he was getting (was anyone out there
pushing riders to the outside of the track??), or even where he was looking,
but I'd certainly have preferred seeing him run over a crashed bike than a
corner worker. With the worker moving, the rider may have not been able to
decide which way to go to get around and just ran out of time. It was a
stupid move all around and now a worker is seriously hurt. Damn!

Any idea whose raising funds or what they're doing?
- -- 
Terry "Grizzly Dawg" Lewis
Alexandria, VA
'00 Eclipse Blue RS

> From: Rich Lane <rlane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:45:06 -0400
> 
> Yeah, that happened at Loudon, NH about a month ago during a club
> race.  Nobody was killed, but one of the corner workers got injured
> very badly.  Unfortunately he has no insurance so they have been
> trying to raise funds to offset his medical costs.
> 
> Stuff like that constantly makes me rethink the whole idea of going
> racing.
> 


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