[Chris Ronson Jr]

I just saw an update on Facebook from his tire sponsor Roger Kraus racing:

Posted by Brandon K:
"Just saw a good friend of mine,Randy Mackintosh do 7 end over end in his race car. My prayers are out there for him and his family. It was one of the worst crashes I have ever seen. He was medavacked out. Hope things go your way Randy."

If I hear anything else Ill do my best to keep everyone updated, sorry to leave a cliff hanger. I read it and my heart dropped and I'm sitting here stunned. I know a lot of people here know Randy, this is why I'm posting.

Update: 2 broken ribs, broken clavicle and a broken wrist. Clavicle had surgery on it and it went good.

This post has been edited by Chris Ronson Jr: Apr 10 2011, 04:15 PM

[ReEntryRacer]

We were both holding our fingers and toes crossed up here Randy! It feels sooo much better now that we can relax knowing that you're going to mend.
I JUST got back in the car after fighting three years to save my left eyesight. Finally found a professor at UBC that deflated my eyeball, sucked all the juice out, scraped the crap off the retina, and reinflated it! I spent weeks looking through a strange artificial horizon until it refilled with fluid. Best part is I now have binocular vison and almost 20/20 again! They CAN do miracles these days! Last weekend's first race on my newly restored licence was hard to feel anything but thankful for, despite tossing the driveshaft at 110 mph while leading! You will get to do this again too! All the best!

[Blainefab]

Last weekend's first race on my newly restored licence was hard to feel anything but thankful for, despite tossing the driveshaft at 110 mph while leading! You will get to do this again too! All the best!

Heh... He's already done it! About 10yrs ago Randys car tossed its driveshaft at me, exit of T1 at Thunderhill, in a qual session. I threaded the needle between the tumbing ds and coasting Randy, and loaned him my spare for the race.

This post has been edited by Blainefab: Apr 25 2011, 06:39 PM

[rmackintosh]

Last weekend's first race on my newly restored licence was hard to feel anything but thankful for, despite tossing the driveshaft at 110 mph while leading! You will get to do this again too! All the best!

Heh... He's already done it! About 10yrs ago Randys car tossed its driveshaft at me, exit of T1 at Thunderhill, in a qual session. I threaded the needle between the tumbing ds and coasting Randy, and loaned him my spare for the race.

HEHE....I remember that weekend! Car was new and had some MAJOR teething pains! Alan saved the day after I tried to take him out at a pretty good rate of speed! I still had the dents in the tunnel from that day....bet there are more dent's now. HAHA...thanks for the memories Alan!

[ReEntryRacer]

Last weekend's first race on my newly restored licence was hard to feel anything but thankful for, despite tossing the driveshaft at 110 mph while leading! You will get to do this again too! All the best!

Heh... He's already done it! About 10yrs ago Randys car tossed its driveshaft at me, exit of T1 at Thunderhill, in a qual session. I threaded the needle between the tumbing ds and coasting Randy, and loaned him my spare for the race.

HEHE....I remember that weekend! Car was new and had some MAJOR teething pains! Alan saved the day after I tried to take him out at a pretty good rate of speed! I still had the dents in the tunnel from that day....bet there are more dent's now. HAHA...thanks for the memories Alan!

I was very lucky last w/e because the two containment loops I welded onto the stock torque arm survived the thrashing and were able to keep it attached to the trans. Very noisy and some lock/unlock as the remains of the rear U joint was jamming on the pinion saddle, etc. It finally locked up somehow and stayed that way so my brand new rear tires took the real beating as I avoided the wall. All fixed now. The saddle clamps were still in place, with all four bolts tight, but the bearing cup had escaped on one side. The only thing I can guess is the inner clip that retains the bearing cup parted company letting the whole assembly come apart. I notice the 3rd gen alum d/s has two different u joint part numbers (with the thin retaining ring!) while the 4th gen ones have a single ( but different) p/n. I have to assume they went back to the steel retainer 'bump' in the pinion saddle outer faces which will not be tossed out. I'm using my spare with new u-joints only until I can change to a better version. Life's little lessons...

[Shortcutsleeping]

Randy,

SO GLAD YOU ARE OKAY....happy to hear you are on the road to recovery!!

If we can do anything, let us know please!!



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