Info Request: Drivers Who Died of Non-Race, Unnatural Causes

[wwpch]

Bottom post of the previous page:

Juan Zanelli died 1942 in a concentration camp where he was inmate for his Resistance involvement.

How died a first great Chilean driver in a concentration camp

I expect that the country's leaders were like Hitler and Stalin - a threat to their power and you are put "out of the way"

(Apologies, i study History)

Maybe the Chilean leaders were very bad guys, I don't know, but Juan Zanelli died in FRANCE as the FRENCH Resistance member.

[Lunatic Armchair]

Chris Trickle was killed in a murder. Surprised that isn't up there.

[SimRacin14]

Curt Piercy(ARCA driver) was killed in a plane crash in 2004.

Roy Smith(Winston West driver) I believe was killed in a shipwreck the same year.

Dale Singleton(ARCA driver) was going to go NASCAR Grand National(Sprint Cup) racing late in '85,decided to sell his equipment in May of that year. In the fall,he was killed in a plane crash. Saw two news articles on him in a newspaper database.

Richie Panch(NASCAR) was also killed in a plane crash in 1985.

[theracer120]

NASCAR driver Roy Tyner was shot and set afire in his truck in 1989 or '89.

[Lunatic Armchair]

Former NASCAR Driver Bill Pronger went missing in 1971 "missing at the hands of mafia agents"

Also Winston executive and founder of NASCAR programs such as the all-star race and the Winston Million, T Wayne Robinson died in a boating accident

[Lunatic Armchair]

I've got one for OTHER.


Former NASCAR driver and Ford rep Buddy Shuman was killed in a hotel fire in 1955. before the first race of the 1956 NASCAR season

[fanofkasey]

Kevin Grubb (NASCAR) died of a self-inflicted gunshot woun to the head

Christian Elder (NASCAR) died of AIDS in 2006 or 2007

Tim Richmond (NASCAR) also died of AIDS in the early 1990s

[Jesper Hvid]

I will update this list at some point, in the fall, and send everything on to mmorg. I haven't forgotten this.

[ChiliFan]

Not sure if you're interested in bike riders but whatever:

Ondrej Lelek - Czech rider who competed in the German Pro-Superbike Championship in 1997 and 1998, also doing several World Superbike wildcard rides and entering the Le Mans 24 Hours with the first ever all-Czech team. Went on to work as a safety instructor at Brno. Killed in a road accident near Prague on July 10th 2008.

[Jesper Hvid]

Emil Kramer, Swedish speedway rider, killed earlier this month in a traffic accident in his homeland,

*** Fatal wreck ***

http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/m ... 6266155.ab

*** Fatal wreck ***

[ASH]

Emil Kramer, Swedish speedway rider, killed earlier this month in a traffic accident in his homeland,

*** Fatal wreck ***

http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/m ... 6266155.ab

*** Fatal wreck ***

OMFG, not much left of the car.

[Jesper Hvid]

For the lucky weak, success breeds carelessness, and in the end, the weak perish by a 90% majority to such pros as, say, the great Mark Donohue. That's why this list is probably much longer than what mm.org has on actual race casualties, the socalled LWF-section (Lest We Forget). In my estimate, the LWF will in time surpass the database proper.

I've neglected this topic for too long, now, and I'll update the new items a.s.a.p. Thank you, gentlemen, for all your late contrafibulations.

[Dave]

Motorcycle champ Randy Renfrow died from injuries sustained hen he fell down some stairs.

[Jesper Hvid]

Motorcycle champ Randy Renfrow died from injuries sustained hen he fell down some stairs.

Renfrow needs to be in the LWF, thanks for the heads-up, I'll communicate this on to the team.

[Rainyday]

Carl-Otto Bremer, Finnish driver who won Eläintarhanajot in 1959 and finished 9th in Monte Carlo Rally of 1960 as well as winning Jyväskylän Suurajot at the same year. Died in 1962 when a plane piloted by him crashed into the shoreline of his summer cottage. Along with him died his co-driver Juhani Lampi and also Lauri Hurme, who was one of the founders of Hankiralli in 50s.

I think at least Mr. Bremer and Mr. Lampi belong on the list, no?

I am also surprised to see that Colin McRae is missing from the list, we all know what happened to him. I suppose that is a honest mistake though, seeing this thread was mostly active in 2006 and afterwards has recent and not-so well known additions, though in my minds all victims value the same.

[kart99]

David Leslie and Richard Lloyd both died in the same plane crash.