DAMN!
I just talked with him the day after Christmas, and in typical Mike fashion he was concerned with and we discussed our friend Lynn Nickerson, and his health, and he was asking about how my dad was doing. We discussed his latest bouts with his own health, but not a word that anything like this was on the horizon.
Mike's love and passion for the sport can't be surpassed by many, and he was regarded as a TRUE friend by almost everyone he came in contact with.
Any conversation with Mike was a continuation of the last one, from yesterday or two weeks ago, and I'm going to miss those late night chats about EVERYTHING and everyone in the drag racing world.
Mike's dreams and ambitions will live on, their foundation has already been firmly established, and those of us that knew and respected him will see to it that they carry on.
While it's a sad, sad day for those that knew and respected him, it's a good day for Mike, his pain and suffering in his human body has now been erased, and Mike can be free to watch from the Sky-Box bleachers. Bet he's already doing some bench racing with those that have gone before him.
Pomona just won't be the same this year.
God Speed my friend.
Unk
