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Englishtown Fatality
- Thread starter Nunz
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I'm here from my hotel room in the Courtyard in Cranbury and I really did not want to go to e-town today, I actually left before the final pro session today.
But I do have footage of the crash yesterday, Neal's chute did come out, but it was very tangled and unable to fully blossom because I zoomed in and i saw it fluttering behind the car but not blossomed. What really makes it worse, was that when I first arrived @ RP Friday, the first person I saw was Neal at Tech with the car and I said "Great to see you out here with the funny car, I remember when you ran on Wednesday Nights with Frank Schuster and the Fiat, too bad he's not here.) which he said "yes he is" which kinda surprised me because he wasn't on the entry list, I finally said to Neal "The conditions are perfect today, this is the one shot go out and attack it). And so he did a Career best, but Damn it what a price to pay and I feel so bad for saying that and I've never been so emotionally spent at an event I've been going to for 18 years and seen a plethora of history to the point that I didn't even want to go today and instead go to Monmouth Park and bet horses because of my 2nd night here at the hotel. Scott Kailitta, Eric Medlen, Even Darrell Russell who I met at a D1 Points race @ LVD 10 years before he died. none of which hit me as hard as Neal's death yesterday, and I have been following him since the Scott Jezak's Hot Rods From Hell days in the 90s with Frank Schuster, Carroll Hine, Emil Rolando, Henry Hall, Dan Roman, The Terenzio Bros, Rocky Pirrone, Blair Smith, Ron Zavarella, Even Scott himself.
I have so many mixed emotions right now from guilt (For what I said), to disgust (How could this have happened) to fear (Another Fatality on RP & the Napps hands, I fear the track may get the Ax from the Full Throttle & Lucas Oil Tours) and everything in between.
But I do have footage of the crash yesterday, Neal's chute did come out, but it was very tangled and unable to fully blossom because I zoomed in and i saw it fluttering behind the car but not blossomed. What really makes it worse, was that when I first arrived @ RP Friday, the first person I saw was Neal at Tech with the car and I said "Great to see you out here with the funny car, I remember when you ran on Wednesday Nights with Frank Schuster and the Fiat, too bad he's not here.) which he said "yes he is" which kinda surprised me because he wasn't on the entry list, I finally said to Neal "The conditions are perfect today, this is the one shot go out and attack it). And so he did a Career best, but Damn it what a price to pay and I feel so bad for saying that and I've never been so emotionally spent at an event I've been going to for 18 years and seen a plethora of history to the point that I didn't even want to go today and instead go to Monmouth Park and bet horses because of my 2nd night here at the hotel. Scott Kailitta, Eric Medlen, Even Darrell Russell who I met at a D1 Points race @ LVD 10 years before he died. none of which hit me as hard as Neal's death yesterday, and I have been following him since the Scott Jezak's Hot Rods From Hell days in the 90s with Frank Schuster, Carroll Hine, Emil Rolando, Henry Hall, Dan Roman, The Terenzio Bros, Rocky Pirrone, Blair Smith, Ron Zavarella, Even Scott himself.
I have so many mixed emotions right now from guilt (For what I said), to disgust (How could this have happened) to fear (Another Fatality on RP & the Napps hands, I fear the track may get the Ax from the Full Throttle & Lucas Oil Tours) and everything in between.
Paul
Nitro Member
Rob, all you did was encourage Neal to do his best. This is something that's good to tell any racer, that's what its all about, its why racers race, its why real fans watch. You have no reason to feel bad about making that encouraging statement to him.
Sincerely,
Paul T.
Silly Savage
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BaldyLochs
Nitro Member
I am so sad. This is very, very hard to hear. May God be with his family and friends, and may God be with us all.
