RV Driver killed racing at NY Racetrack
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. (AP) — State police say the driver of a motorhome has been killed in a crash during an upstate New York racetrack's annual "Eve of Destruction" event. Troopers say the accident oc...
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J-Rooster wrote:
As everyone knows RV's are not set up to race! Was there a failure in his roll cage or roll bar? You can't get on a legal sanctioned race track in these types of vehicles without protection? The only RV race that I heard of is when Chinook RV out of Yakima, WA. many years ago took one of there coaches off the production line. And took it to a race track to see how fast it would go. It was a gasser, big block chevy (8.1) and it did 101 mph and this took place at speed week on the salt flats to set and new land speed record for RV's.
I owned two Chinooks and they were both Ford based. Didn't know they ever built on Chevy, and I remember seeing the video of that land speed record run. It looked identical to my Ford 350 Chinook Concourse that had the V-10.
