Adam would have been 24 today


"It's just been our life that I
always end up being the man in
the middle." Dr. Maurice E. Gibb
www.victoryjunction.org












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anyone notice the hole that is in the world of nascar without dale
up there on that stage?  Damn, I miss having him around.

It was 3 years ago today that we lost Kenny Irwin Jr.  He'll never be
forgotten by those of us who loved him.

Race on Rainbow!

"May Your Memory Never Made"


futurestar52
45fan4ever
Not A Day Goes By

10 years it has been since the loss of such a great man and champion.

"May your memory never fade."

futurestar52
45fan4ever

Columbia crew is always in our hearts

As an American, my thoughts and prayers are with the family,
friends, and co-workers of the space shuttle crew lost this
morning. "May your memory never fade."

futurestar
45fan4life
Not a Day Goes By

Wishing you and all your friends and family a happy holiday season
and a wonderful new year.

futurestar52
45fan4ever
NOt a Day Goes By

Yes, Stacy there is an email invitation for the club and I would be
more than happy to send it to anyone. Just let me know.

futurestar52
45fan4ever
NOt a Day Goes By.




--- In lostlegendsofracing@y..., tdfct <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> How can I get an invitaion sent to a friend for this group Thanks
~Stacy~

You could send her an e-mail telling her she can send an e-mail to
join this group at lostlegendsofracing-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ,
or you could give her directions to join the group through the web
page:

1)  Go to http://groups.yahoo.com

2)  In the join a group search box, type in lostlegendsofracing .

3)  Click on the link when it comes up in the groups list.

4)  Click on join this group.

As far as having a standard e-mail that could be sent to someone, I
don't know whether there is one or not.  Maybe the moderator could
answer that.

Hope this helps!

~Stacy




--- In lostlegendsofracing@y..., tdfct <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> How can I get an invitaion sent to a friend for this group Thanks
~Stacy~

How can I get an invitaion sent to a friend for this group Thanks ~Stacy~

By JIM UTTER
ThatsRacin.com Writer


AP Photo/Chuck Burton

Workers remove the car of ARCA RE/MAX Series driver Eric Martin from
the track at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Wednesday Oct.
9, 2002. Martin was killed Wednesday in a wreck during practice for
the EasyCare 150.


CONCORD, N.C. - Eric Martin, a rookie in the Automobile Racing Club
of America series, was killed Wednesday in a violent practice-
session wreck at Lowe's Motor Speedway - the second series death at
the track in just more than a year.
Martin, 33, of Hixson, Tenn., spun in his No. 2 Chevrolet while
exiting Turn 4 and backed into the outside retaining wall. After a
delay of several seconds, a car driven by Deborah Renshaw swept
through Turns 3 and 4 and struck Martin's car on the driver's-side
door.

Martin suffered massive internal injuries and was killed, speedway
spokesman Jerry Gappens said.

Martin's body was taken to Northeast Medical Center for evaluation
by the coroner and was to be transferred to the State Medical
Examiner's Office in Charlotte, where a complete autopsy would be
performed. Martin's car was impounded by ARCA.

Martin's is the 15th death at Lowe's Motor Speedway - the eighth
driver death - since the speedway opened in 1960.

At least 295 people have died in auto racing in the United States
since 1990, an investigation by The Charlotte Observer has found,
including at least 25 deaths this year.

Renshaw, 25, of Bowling Green, Ky., was taken to University Hospital
in Charlotte. She was listed in fair condition late Wednesday. She
was scheduled for orthopedic surgery Thursday.

Both Martin and Renshaw were wearing the HANS (Head and Neck
Support) device, used to restrain head and neck movement in
accidents.

ARCA implemented a rule requiring the use of a head-and-neck device
by all its drivers in response to the death of Blaise Alexander, who
suffered a basilar skull fracture after hitting the outside
frontstretch wall in a late-race accident on Oct. 4, 2001, at the
Charlotte track.

"He either got in some oil or blew a right-front tire, one or the
other. I did not see the accident happen," said Martin's team owner,
Wayne Hixson. "He hit the wall and came over the radio and
said, 'I'm all right.'

"He was sitting there and about four or five seconds later,
(Renshaw) just broadsided him. ...It's just a wreck. It's just
something that happened."

NASCAR veteran Ron Hornaday saw Martin's car spin in front of him.

"My car turned to the right and I went between him and wall," he
said. "By the time I got into (Turns) 1 and 2, Doug (Richert, crew
chief) said, 'You won't believe this. That kid just got hit. Just
got hit hard. Slow down, there's debris everywhere.' "

Speedway president H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler spoke to Martin's widow,
Tammy, about 4 p.m. after Martin, a lieutenant junior grade in the
Navy, was located on her ship, the Gettysburg, in port in
Jacksonville, Fla. A Navy chaplain told Martin of the accident. The
Martins also have two children.

Wheeler was unavailable for comment, working with Martin's family on
funeral arrangements.

The delay between Martin's spin and the impact of Renshaw's car
raised questions Wednesday over the role of the drivers' spotters.

"(Driver) Shelby Howard spun through (some oil) and just missed
hitting Eric. Deborah Renshaw was going into (Turns) 3 and 4. I
don't know what her spotter told her," said Bill Venturini, a car
owner and two-time series champion.

"I was standing on the trailer right next to her trailer and
spotting for my son, Billy. I didn't see (Martin's car). It was down
a little from the wall and right behind the medical center and from
where we were standing you couldn't see that one section of the race
track."

ARCA requires all cars on the track to have a spotter, stationed
either on a team's hauler or in a stand located on the roof above
the press box, with two-way communication between the driver and the
spotter.

Spokeswoman Danielle Frye said NASCAR does not require a team to
have a spotter in place during practice sessions, but that most
teams provide one.

ARCA veteran Bob Schacht served as Renshaw's spotter Wednesday. He
was unavailable for comment.

"(Schacht) would have been on top of his transporter in our garage
area," said ARCA President Ron Drager. "ARCA has taken steps to work
with each of the speedways to see that all of the spotters are
provided with credentials to provide them access to the roof
spotter's area or at their option to spot off the top of their
transporters."

ARCA canceled qualifying for Thursday's night's EasyCare 150 - the
series' season finale - and set the field by car owner points.
Reigning series champion Frank Kimmel will start from the pole.

"The regulars - the guys who raced with him every week - they didn't
want to be here tonight," Venturini said. "They just wanted to go
home.

"The reason people come to ARCA is because it's a family atmosphere.
Granted, it's stepping stone for Winston Cup. But the people who
stay in ARCA stay because it's a family run program. I've been here
20 years and that's why I'm here."

************************************

ERIC MARTIN career stats

Hometown: Hixson, Tennessee

DOB: 2-6-69

Race driver/mechanic

Wife Tammy, 2 children

Driving for step-father Wayne Hixson, has 40 career ARCA RE/MAX
Series starts since 2001. Career-best finish 14th on DuQuoin,
Illinois dirt-mile in 2002. Also finished 16th at Nashville
Superspeedway '01, 18th at Chicagoland Speedway '02, 21st at Kansas
Speedway '02, 23rd at Nashville '02, 23rd at Springfield dirt-
mile '02, 25th at Pocono '02 and 25th at Watkins Glen road
course '01. Career-best qualifying runs 20th at Nashville '02, 22nd
at Salem '02, 22nd at Watkins Glen '01, 23rd at Springfield '02 and
25th at Pocono '02. Finished career-best 16th in ARCA RE/MAX Series
driver points in 2001. Wife Tammy is an officer on the USS
Gettysburg in the US Navy.


God Speed Eric. You will be missed by all.

By JENNA FRYER
AP Sports Writer
October 8, 2002



RANDLEMAN, N.C. (AP) -- Two years after Adam Petty's death, the
NASCAR community honored the late racer in a celebration to mark the
start of construction on a children's camp being built in his honor.

Winston Cup champions Dale Jarrett and Bobby Labonte, car owners
Rick Hendrick, Joe Gibbs and Felix Sabates and NASCAR president Mike
Helton headlined dozens of NASCAR celebrities who joined actors Paul
Newman, Andie MacDowell and close to 1,000 other supporters in
celebrating the Victory Junction Gang Camp on Tuesday.

``When we topped the hill, I was humbled and in awe at the people
who are here,'' Kyle Petty said as he choked back tears. ``You will
never know how much this means for me to see you guys here.''

Petty's 19-year-old son was killed in an accident while practicing
for a Busch series race at New Hampshire International Speedway in
May, 2000.

He had made his Winston Cup debut just a few weeks before his death,
and his participation in that race made the Pettys the only four-
generation family of racers in NASCAR.

Before the wreck, his parents had been active in trying to start a
camp for children with life-threatening illnesses modeled after
Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camps. Those efforts were sidelined
in the months following Adam's death, but his mother, Pattie,
eventually rekindled them as a way to honor her oldest son.

The Pettys then went to work raising money for the camp and have
collected $10 million of the needed $24 million to complete the
efforts.

Many of the funds have come from the NASCAR community as drivers
have either made donations, participated in the Pettys' annual
charity motorcycle ride or held their own fund-raisers.

Ken Schrader recently held a celebrity night of racing at a track he
owns in Missouri that raised $100,000 for the camp. And when Tony
Stewart competed in both the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on
the same day last year, he teamed with sponsor Home Depot and Gibbs
to donate a combined $300 for every lap he completed during the
double-duty.

``This was never supposed to be a Petty thing,'' said seven-time
Winston Cup champion Richard Petty. ``This was supposed to be a
NASCAR thing and it's just so incredible to see our community help
out the way it has.

``We've got 10 to 12 drivers here, car owners, crew chiefs, all
people who have their own things to do and instead, they came out to
celebrate this day with us.''

The 65-acre camp will be located on land donated by Richard and
Lynda Petty and will be the seventh member of Newman's camps, which
were founded in 1988.

The camp will provide children with chronic or terminal diseases a
weeklong haven to ride horses, swim, paddle canoes or perform on a
stage. Medical staff stand by at all times to provide everything
from insulin to chemotherapy. Goodys Headache Powder presented the
Pettys with a $1 million check at the celebration in support of the
medical center.

``This is about luck, the brutality of luck in some cases served as
the impetus to bring this camp to life,'' Newman said. ``The
brutality of luck, especially in a young kid who may not have a
lifetime ... and luck on the other end of the spectrum, especially
being born in this country with good health and the wherewithal to
be able to create something like this.''

The Pettys' camp, which is scheduled to open in 2004, will serve
children from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

``I think the one thing people will always remember about Adam was
his smile,'' Pattie Petty said. ``This camp is going to bring a lot
of smiles to a lot of children and that's what Adam would have
wanted.''

After the ceremony, the Pettys took a group of supporters, including
Newman and Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford to a local race track
for a day of racing. Others were invited to ride horses on the
family farm as the Pettys mingled with their extended family and
shared memories of Adam.

``On one hand it's hard because we want to move on and get past
this,'' Richard Petty said. ``But it makes you feel real good to see
how many people are here for us and how many people want to share
with us in Adam's memory.''

One year ago on October 4, we lost a great young driver by the name
of Blaise Alexander. Thoughts and prayers for his family, friends,
and fans.

In Memory of Blaise Alexander
Not a day goes by

futuretar52
45fan4ever

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NASCAR Busch Series driver Andy Kirby was killed in a motorcycle
accident on Thursday night in his hometown.

Kirby, 40, was traveling westbound at a high rate of speed on Union
Road when he lost control of his 1985 Harley-Davidson motorcycle
negotiating a curve. The accident occurred at approximately 11:30
p.m. CT.

"According to our investigation, the driver slid 174 feet on the
pavement before he and the motorcycle slid off the road," said Beth
Tucker-Womack, spokesperson for the Tennessee Highway Patrol. "He
then slid another 47 feet before striking a tree.

"At that time, he was ejected from the bike. There was no sign of
drugs or alcohol involved."

Kirby drove in 12 races this year and had a best finish of sixth
place at Talladega Superspeedway. He made a total of 28 NBS starts
in his career. His racing background included motorcross bike racing
and Late Model Stock Cars.

He spent eight seasons competing at Nashville Speedway USA, where he
was NASCAR Winston Racing Series champion in 1997 and rookie of the
year in 1990.

He is survived by his wife Dori and three sons, Seth, Jonathan and
Ethan.

The family has asked that instead of flowers that donations be made
to:

Kirby Children's Fund
Cumberland Bank
2916 HWY 31W
White House, TN 37188


Sources: http://www.stockcarfans.com/BGN/SCF-07-19-02.htm

http://www.nascar.com/2002/news/headlines/bg/07/19/akirby_obit/index.
html


My thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and fans.

futurestar52
45fan4ever
Not a day goes by

22 Petty balloons from us to you.

VL45fan
45fan4ever

Not a day goes by

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll have to try them.  Nothing is
going to make the hurt that is there go away but it might help a
little.  I'll let you know how it goes.

                        Linda

Today is the 2nd anniversary of the day we lost Kenny.  "Anniversary"
doesn't really seem like the right word, though, because that's a
word that is generally associated with commeorating a happy event;
but I don't know what else to call it.

One thing I do know is that even after 2 years, it still hurts so
much.

I'm always nervous before a race, especially big ones like Daytona,
Talladega, and New Hampshire.

I always pray that it be a safe race and that no one gets hurt. I'm
not sure if it would help u from being nervous, but you could wear a
ribbon in their memory or get a shirt made up  (like airbrushed)
with their names and numbers on it. Or you can do one of my favorite
things, release balloons in their memory.  Whenever I get a balloon,
i always release it to Adam sort of as a remembering you kinda
thing. There is a good country song on Mark Will's new album
called "The Balloon Song" it is a really good song. IT talks about
sending messages to people in heaven via a balloon.

I'm not sure if any of my suggestions would help, but let me know if
I can do anything. Email me anytime. Or contact me via the group. I
know it would be hard for me to go to New Hampshire; I've never been
to that track.

futurestar
45fan4ever

Not a day goes by.


--- In lostlegendsofracing@y..., "hockeypuck202000"
<hockeypuck202000@y...> wrote:
>  I'm going to the New Hampshire race on the 21 of July.  The last
> time I went to that track was the day Kenny died.  I'm really
nervous
> about going back.  I was nervous that day too.  Anyone got any
ideas
> for me not to be nervous?
>
>
>                   Linda

I'm going to the New Hampshire race on the 21 of July.  The last
time I went to that track was the day Kenny died.  I'm really nervous
about going back.  I was nervous that day too.  Anyone got any ideas
for me not to be nervous?


                   Linda

Very nice to meet you Linda! Its always nice to meet a fellow fan of
Adams!  I felt the same way after he passed; you should see my room
now! its a racer's paradise with a memorial wall to Adam above my
desk :)

Nice to meet you again!

futurestar52
45fan4ever

Not a day goes by.



--- In lostlegendsofracing@y..., <hockeypuck202000@y...> wrote:
>  Hi! my name is Linda.  I was a huge Adam Petty fan.
> I was very excited when he made his Cup debut at
> Texas.  I think I cried for a month when he died.  I
> hope his dad can win a Cup race this year.  If he does
> I'm still gonna cry.  Anyway it is nice to meet everybody!
>
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Hi! my name is Linda.  I was a huge Adam Petty fan.
I was very excited when he made his Cup debut at
Texas.  I think I cried for a month when he died.  I
hope his dad can win a Cup race this year.  If he does
I'm still gonna cry.  Anyway it is nice to meet everybody!

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We miss you Adam.


**45 forever in our hearts**

futurestar52

NASCAR legend Buck Baker dies
By DAVID POOLE


Buck Baker, born Elzie Wylie Baker on March 4, 1919, in Richburg,
S.C., won the 1956 NASCAR championship with car owner Carl
Kiekhaefer for one of the first multicar teams in NASCAR history.
Buck Baker came back to win the 1957 title for car owner Bud Moore,
becoming the first driver to ever win consecutive titles. He also
finished second in the standings in 1955 and 1958.

Buck Baker entered 636 races as a driver, beginning with the very
first race held in NASCAR's "strictly stock" series held in
Charlotte in 1949. That's the series now known as Winston Cup.
Thirteen of his victories came in cars Baker owned – he was listed
as car owner in more than 500 races.


For the complete story see:
http://www.thatsracin.com/mld/thatsracin/3070741.htm

Memorials may be made to Crisis Assistance Ministry, 500 Spratt
Street, Building A, Charlotte, NC 28231.


futurestar52
45fan4ever

Buck Baker: The Passing of Another Legend

by Ellen Nordvig

Buck Baker passed away late Sunday, and with him passed part of the
history of NASCAR. Buck participated in NASCAR's Inaugural Race and
was part of a legendary group the likes of which we will never see
again.

Born Elzie Wylie Baker, "Buck" was father of Elzie Wylie Baker, Jr.
known to most as the legendary, "Buddy" Baker.  While Buddy's name
may sound familiar to today's fan, how many, I wonder, know of the
accomplishments of his racing father. Buck's name is associated
with, of course, The Buck Baker Racing School that bears his name
and for good reason.

For complete story:
http://stockcarcity.com/html/articles/apr17_nordvig.htm

futurestar52

To the stars through difficulty.

Nine years ago today, the NASCAR world lost a great man: Alan
Kulwicki.

Many tributes have been posted today by various newspapers and
websites. Here are a few of them.

"Remembering Alan Kulwicki" by Stephanie Hruby
http://www.catchfence.com/html/2002/sh040102.html

"Reigning Winston Cup Champ Left us with only Memories" by Kate Falk
http://www.eracefans.com/articles/jr0401.shtml

"Time Goes By (A Tribute to Alan Kulwicki)" by Dennis Michelsen
http://www.frontstretch.com/michelsen/020401.htm


The following are fan websites tributing Alan Kulwicki.

The Alan Kulwicki Homepage
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/2170/alan.html

Remembering Alan Kulwicki
http://www.ak7.cjb.net/




futurestar52
45fan4ever

To the stars through difficulty.

Hey all.. I have the "memories" section back
online at Legends new host. You'll see it's a bit bleek
right now so PLEASE!! I beg of you contribute
something. The drivers listed are just some that I have
pages coming up and aren't finished. By no means are we
limiting it to those names.<br><br>"Rules For
Submitions"<br><br>Very easy: <br>No pics of the accidents. I think we've
all seen enough of them.<br><br>At this point only
NASCAR sanctioned drivers are accepted. But if there is
popular demand... scartch that... ANY racer from any
area. But keep it to drivers that are working toward
NASCAR licensing. Let's give the "no-namers" some
recognition.<br><br>That's it. Thanks all.

Thanky... could go on forever with my links.... but something that may be of
interest to you is going back up on my page tonight... the Adam Petty memories
page.

Welcome to the club coven_beholder. feel free to put a link to your page. feel
free to add any photos are links you may have.<br><br>futurestar<br>45fan4ever