Scary Moments in Your Racing Career?

jim powers · 12-11-2008, 10:13 AM

at the risk of reviving some bad memories for my good friend dean riberio,i can remember the atco points race in 2003 in the spring when i ran dean first round in stock,me in my f/fia 85 camaro and dean in jim whiteheads 69 camaro, i dialed in about a 11.80 and dean dialed about a 11.97 to which i said i know old dean is holding back some so as we left and i caught him we were watching each other all the way down the track, my plan was to run him and drop him at the stripe ;at 1000 feet we were staring at each other and i said to myself get ready to drop him,well for some reason i did not hit the brakes, to this day i really dont know why,as we crossed the finish line i looked over as i let off the fuel and did not see deans car,i looked in the rear view miror and saw it UPSIDE DOWN literally on my back window,i mashed down on the gas and kept on driving almost to the trees!!i watched deans camaro rolling several times behind me,in that situation which seemed like a long time, and it almost seemed like i could not get away from the crashing stocker,when i stopped i saw deans car upside down against the wall, when i turned around and got back to him the division one safety guys and atco's crew were there,we literally lifted the car from the back and dean came crawling out the back window!!!i dont know who was more shaken up me or dean!!!by the way dean got the win lite on the roof, john force aint got nothing on dean!!!!

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12-11-2008, 10:13 AM	#14
jim powers Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: manville nj Posts: 359 Likes: 198 Liked 13 Times in 10 Posts	at the risk of reviving some bad memories for my good friend dean riberio,i can remember the atco points race in 2003 in the spring when i ran dean first round in stock,me in my f/fia 85 camaro and dean in jim whiteheads 69 camaro, i dialed in about a 11.80 and dean dialed about a 11.97 to which i said i know old dean is holding back some so as we left and i caught him we were watching each other all the way down the track, my plan was to run him and drop him at the stripe ;at 1000 feet we were staring at each other and i said to myself get ready to drop him,well for some reason i did not hit the brakes, to this day i really dont know why,as we crossed the finish line i looked over as i let off the fuel and did not see deans car,i looked in the rear view miror and saw it UPSIDE DOWN literally on my back window,i mashed down on the gas and kept on driving almost to the trees!!i watched deans camaro rolling several times behind me,in that situation which seemed like a long time, and it almost seemed like i could not get away from the crashing stocker,when i stopped i saw deans car upside down against the wall, when i turned around and got back to him the division one safety guys and atco's crew were there,we literally lifted the car from the back and dean came crawling out the back window!!!i dont know who was more shaken up me or dean!!!by the way dean got the win lite on the roof, john force aint got nothing on dean!!!!