Red Dawson's DeKon Chevy Monza 1001

[John McKechnie]

Bry- saw it on TV at the time .
His car went suddenly off the track- the driver - hit a ditch ( I think) and rolled and just kept rolling.
It was shocking.

[bry3500]

Bry- saw it on TV at the time .
His car went suddenly off the track- the driver may have had a medical event- hit a ditch ( I think) and rolled and just kept rolling.
It was shocking.
If I am wrong or out of line here,let me know and I will correct this.

Cbeers John - I have never seen photos of that before

[Grant Ellwood]

Bry- saw it on TV at the time .
His car went suddenly off the track- the driver may have had a medical event- hit a ditch ( I think) and rolled and just kept rolling.
It was shocking.
If I am wrong or out of line here,let me know and I will correct this.

Hi John, I was sitting in the stand near the sweeper and saw that crash. My memory is pretty rusty but I think Red just over steered coming out of the corner and bolted off to the inside of the track where there were a few drainage ditches and nosed in and launched.
I also recall Neville Brickley having a similar incident coming out of the esses at another event. The Manfeild organizers did a lot of work to try to keep on top of drainage problems, just an unfortunate set of circumstances for those two drivers. I hadn't heard of Red having a medical event but I'm sure it's possible. Dennis Marwood and other contemporaries would mostly likely know but whatever the cause it certainly was a sad end to Red's career.