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RE: Loosing Wheels

To: "'Richard B. Chianese'" <Richard.B.Chianese@swpc.siemens.com>
Subject: RE: Loosing Wheels
From: "Ryan, Richard" <RRyan@frk.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:13:35 -0700
Risk Management is racing 4 wheeled vehicles and NOT 2 wheeled ones. I
quickly learned that road racing bikes is really scary.

Dick Ryan  ex. 24022
(650)312-4022
Risk Management Dept. #857


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard B. Chianese [mailto:Richard.B.Chianese@swpc.siemens.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 11:02 AM
To: Ryan, Richard @SMTP@Exchange
Subject: Re: Loosing Wheels


Think about this folks; Dick works for "Risk Management."  What have we
learned?  Is this somehow significant?

Rick Chianese
SRL311-14035
Orlando, FL

Ryan, Richard @SMTP@Exchange wrote:
> 
> Losing a wheel will give you "religion".  After racing a 2L in D
production
> for 3 years, we raced a 1200 coupe on a dirt oval for a few years. One
> night
> the right front wheel developed a 360 degree crack at the bolt circle.
The
> last time I saw it, it was bounding towards the pits.  Thank God it didn't
> hit some one or some thing.  It happened on the last half lap and I
> continued to the finish line and it only cost me one position.
> 
> Another night the left front top shock nut assembly broke.  As you may
> know,
> on a McPherson strut, that is the only thing that holds the top end of the
> suspension in the car.  As the suspension folded under, the wheel ended up
> under the driver's seat.  The increase in the drag coefficient over came
> the
> 1200's horsepower depositing me in the middle of the track on the front
> straight.  No one hit me and the red flag saved a lot of potential damage.
> 
> Now that's racing.
> 
> Dick Ryan  ex. 24022
> (650)312-4022
> Risk Management Dept. #857

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