Fatality at Lime Rock

[McAttack]

Happened Saturday. There was also another fatality at Oxford Raceway in Maine the same day. A very sad weekend for New England racing.

The Lime Rock fatality was a SCCA event. It involved one car. Perhaps he just lost it? I don't recall hearing of any fatalities ever at Lime Rock until this.

Kind of freaky since I'll be on the same track this coming weekend. Just what my pregnant wife needed to hear.

 

[JPS Europa]

I saw a little blurb that said it was the ninth fatality since the park opened. Every time I start thinking about going back to the track someone gets killed and I rethink it. Very sad for the driver and his family.

 

[nsx13]

Here is some more info:

http://bimmer.roadfly.org/bmw/forums/m-lounge/forum.php?postid=3406133&page=1

Based on that article, might be a chance he had cardiac arrest. In the late '90s someone I knew from the Porsche Club died at Pocono Raceway - my understanding he was able to pit but was dead when help arrived (cardiac arrest).

 

[Ponyboy]

Wow...that sucks. Driver error has been ruled out and the guy was 68 years old....

My prayers go out to his family.

 

[RSO 34]

Here is some more info. It happened in the uphill.

http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=127170&FS=SCCA*

 

[RSO 34]

update

We were up at Lime Rock this weekend with the SCDA and learned that the driver in that fatal accident suffered a heart attack before the crash. There was no braking or evasive actions prior to driving into the rail. The autopsy also revealed that there was no trauma to the body.