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Dennis, that was unbelievble!!! We are so glad you are ok… The last thing we want is for someone to get hurt and days like yesterday made me feel like closing the place down, but I know that we all would go do something else with the same risk.. Karting is fairly safe but yesterday was pretty rough as a track owner…. Thanks to all that made the trip, we tried really hard to get everyone out of there by 5:30 but the crashes delayed things a little…
Well the results are in. After talking to my doc on Monday, he diagnosed me as having a mild concussion and sent me off to the ER on Monday evening for a CT scan. The ER found no damage to the old head (no comments on quality of brain though) and concurred that it was a mild concussion.
I fared better than the helmet and the kart. The helmet will be replaced as soon as I can get one ordered, but it did it’s job well. The kart is a total loss as the rear frame tubes are both bent and are over 1/4″ different. Both the front and the rear of the kart were damaged with the end-over-end flips the kart did.
I really cannot wait to see the video now. I don’t remember much of it from sunday but everyone keeps telling me it was pretty spectatular.
I’ve got less than two weeks to get a new Arrow kart ready for the Rotax Max Challenge opener. It’s gonna be tight to get one shipped in and prepped but I think it’s doable.
Thanks to everyone, from the racers to the organizers for what was a really great event. It was mind altering 😆
Duff
Duff, we are in the same boat, 1 kart totally destroyed and another in pretty bad shape.. But I would pay a 100 times that to keep the kids safe…. Tristans helmet is also toast but like you said they did their job… Glad your ok, thanks for coming over sorry you had such bad luck…
Stacey
Wow, I didn’t realize that you had a double header whammer. I knew one of the Cook boys was involved but both, wow. Hope the kids are OK and this did not alter their desire to race.
I’ve got a new Arrow A-Max Big Boy chassis already on the way via DHL. Thanks to George at CRE and BTK (the importer), I should have the new chassis on friday or monday. That gives me a week to get it prepped for our first Rotax Max Challenge event of the year on May 1 at CRE.
I am looking forward to returning to GJMS in July and already have my pits reserved.
Duff
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