scotiacat
Registered: 03/06/07
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This week in time, October of 1989, the Thompson World Series is postponed until November 5th due to the collapsing of stands between sections F&G.
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taterracing
Registered: 03/10/08
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scotiacat
Registered: 03/06/07
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Actually, for the number injured, it could have been much worse for being a front stretch collapse. They lost a good 10 plus rows. Oh yeah, who was in attendence on this weekend but some kid named Jeff Gordon.
Howie, do you have some pictures as well?
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CliffNotClaff
Registered: 03/06/07
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Open wheel'ers like Gordon will never make it in NASCAR ;-)
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john22x
Registered: 08/17/07
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I was about 20 feet away from the collapse of the stands at Thompson that day. Saw the whole thing happen. From what i remember 100 people just vanished / dropped from in front of us. Then people started running and climbing over other people trying to get away from the hole / colapse. Very weird experience. On the way out after the race was canceled i remember looking at the stands and thinking no wonder the colapsed..they were pretty rotten. |
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