In a message dated 10/19/2000 9:12:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
76067.1750@compuserve.com writes:
<< I seem to recall Erik Strelnieks (M.D.!) rolling a BMW at the finish line
on the left-side course at the National Pro Solo about three-four years
ago. I believe he suffered a broken arm. As I recall, a contributing factor
was a fast lead-in followed by a quick right-left-right slalom. There may
have been a bump in there as well. >>
Dr. Strelnieks was driving an earlier 318i 4 door, not a ti. I believe it
was '93, since I popped over the same bump (after a 3 cone slalom) in Charlie
Michael's RX-3 and pushed off into the same cones that Erik hit with his
roof. I was the Pro-Solo starter at the time, and remember watching Erik and
either Ren Marinus or Jeff Reitmeir in Jeff's 318i coming thru the slalom,
and turning back to the tree to start the lights, and hearing the crunch of
metal, as the roof hit the ground. Erik later told me he was trying to brace
his elbow on the door, and it slipped, causing his arm to go out. He was
lucky it was only broken.
CHD
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