[Al weyman]

This drag race started in 1905 and I hope the Greens and Health & Safety stalwarts don't close it because of this. I was going to enter the 3rd Gen for a laugh as a drag racer its not and as the 2nd gen is sick I decided not to bother as racing next weekend. Anyhow in the Motorcycle/sidecar class this strange contraption entered and I thought at the time that the thing looked unsafe, it was piloted by a 64 year old guy and had a 38 year old woman passenger (how on earth they let passengers on a drag strip is another story??). Anyhow i saw her before the event and she looked happy in the September sunshine then a few short minutes later the vehicle slewed off the track in the slowing down area and she was killed and he was critically injured and the event was stopped. What a sad end to a beautiful english summers day.

[Steve91T]

Last year at VIR we were on the North course and NESBA (bikes) were on the south course. They shut down the entire event for a couple of hours to fly a biker out who had crashed. A corner worker later said he wasn't sure if he was going to make it. I ended up selling my motorcycle after that.

We moved to Charlotte in January and just last month I met a neighbor a few houses down. Her husband does track days with NESBA and they were all there on that day. She said that he did in fact die, either at the track, or on the way to the hospital. What's really sad is the guys parents and fiance' were there for the first time watching him.