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#1 Eric

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 10:01 PM

...we lost Greg Moore :(

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 10:02 PM

Blimey, that long??? And that was one of the most horrible accidents broadcast (apart from Gilles Villeneuve's fatal accident).

He was certainly a talented driver.

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 10:04 PM

View PostMeanioni, on Oct 31 2007, 06:02 PM, said:

Blimey, that long??? And that was one of the most horrible accidents broadcast (apart from Gilles Villeneuve's fatal accident).

He was certainly a talented driver.
Yeah mate...eight whole years...wow...hard to believe I was only 16 when that happened.

Indeed he was, my favorite driver by far in CART.  I didn't watch for a few years after that; it just wasn't the same.

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 10:27 PM

Was that the same year when there was another fatal accident at the corkscrew in Laguna Seca.... Rodriguez?? That was a weird accident.

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 10:28 PM

View PostEric, on Oct 31 2007, 10:04 PM, said:

I didn't watch for a few years after that; it just wasn't the same.

Well there's always Paul Tracy for entertainment value :)

(not for his driving skills, necessarily :)  )

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   Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the hell is the ceiling?

   I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
  

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 11:05 PM

RIP Greg :(  :(

View PostMeanioni, on Nov 1 2007, 08:27 AM, said:

Was that the same year when there was another fatal accident at the corkscrew in Laguna Seca.... Rodriguez?? That was a weird accident.

Yes Rodriguez pasted in September of 1999 :(

Thank God for the HANS device which has gone some way to making our dangerous sport a little safer.
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Posted 31 October 2007 - 11:18 PM

Yeah, PT's pretty fun...I'm a Hinch fan myself...hoping for a Hinch/Tracy Forsythe team like the one that's rumored.

View Postaussief1, on Oct 31 2007, 07:05 PM, said:

Thank God for the HANS device which has gone some way to making our dangerous sport a little safer.
Indeed, though a HANS would not have saved Greg as his head would've smacked the wall regardless.

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Posted 01 November 2007 - 02:19 AM

View PostEric, on Nov 1 2007, 09:18 AM, said:

Indeed, though a HANS would not have saved Greg as his head would've smacked the wall regardless.

Yeah I remember reading that.

A couple of months ago I was sorting out some of my old F1 racing mags and placing them in year groups and I came across a program for the Surfers Paradise CART race with Greg Moore on the cover, I sat and reflected for a minute in his honour.
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Posted 01 November 2007 - 08:16 AM

Its Really Really sad when a young driver with such a Promising future is cut short.
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Posted 01 November 2007 - 02:54 PM

Yeah...
I remember watching it on the tube...
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Posted 01 November 2007 - 09:31 PM

For a Greg Moore tribute...



The remaining 8-ish parts should be in related videos.

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Posted 02 November 2007 - 04:13 AM

Just a quick comment in agreement that I seriously doubt that Moore would have survived, even with HANS.

Rodriguez was officially the most bizarre fatality I've ever seen...

While we're at it, spare a thought for Jeff Krosnoff ... He was more like 11 years ago ( '96, I think, I know it was on the back stretch at Toronto)...

Those three were the last fatalities in CART.  Hopefully, CCWS will never have one.
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Posted 02 November 2007 - 06:50 PM

View PostYoda McFly, on Nov 2 2007, 12:13 AM, said:

Those three were the last fatalities in CART.  Hopefully, CCWS will never have one.
Legge's crash at Road America leads me to believe there's a great level of safety...DP01's iffy in slow-speed crashes, but at least those don't result in fatality...kinks will be worked out by 08 I'd say.
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