Glad we (FoT) went to Hallett when we did.
"Kas Kastner" <kaskas@cox.net> wrote:
>Just a wonderful great great guy. I hope he is fitted with a turbocharger
>and never loses another race. He deserves to win them all. We all have been
>winners having been around him.
>
>Never Be beaten by Equipment
>Kas Kastner
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Susan Kahler
> To: Fot@autox.team.net
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:46 PM
> Subject: [Fot] Sad news from Hallett
>
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> This was posted on the CVAR group on Yahoo. For those of you who have
> been to Hallett, you will remember Mike (general manager and then owner
> of the Hallett Motor Racing Circuit) as being very involved, genuinely
> caring and with an absolute love of the sport. I was scheduled for
> driver's school with his sons (who ran it) in 1998 or so, and they
> missed putting me on the schedule somehow, so they went to do something
> else that weekend. Mike gave me a one-on-one driver school, showing me
> the Spitfire lines around the track (he was an ex-Spit racer) in his
> Chevy-powered Jag, then letting me drive the beast. He would check in
> on me over the weekend and see how I was doing, and give me tips and
> pointers. He always came to say hi when we were at the track, if I
> didn't get to him first. I will miss him.
>
> ***************************
>
> With a heavy heart I pass this information along to you all.
> Mike Stephens passed away at home after a long illness on Saturday
> evening (6/23/07). As most of you know Mike had been ill for several
> months and now suffers no more.
> Mike was an old friend from my SCCA and NASA days and continuing
> through current CVAR events, he will be missed.
> Our thoughts are with Connie, Scott, Shane and all of the Stephens
> family. That extended family included hundreds of racers from all over
> the country including many from CVAR.
> Mike was a true patron of the sport of road racing and has left a
> legacy in HMRC that will be a part of the sport that he loved for a
> very long time.
> Bob Green
>
> ****************************
>
> R.I.P., Mike.
>
> Susan
>
>
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