Remembering the fallen

[DaleJuniorFan]

Bottom post of the previous page:

NASCAR legend Bobby Allison has died at the age of 86:

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2024/ ... ies-at-86/

[Everso Biggyballies]

RIP

[sadsac]

so sad Bobby Allison one of my all time favourites nascar drivers along with his son Davey
RIP BOBBY

[erwin greven]

Mary McGee died yesterday [November 27th]. She was one of the most respected motorcycle racers of her time, becoming the first woman to compete in motorcycle road racing and motocross events in the United States and opening the door for all who followed.

Mary started out racing sports cars in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) competition in the 1950s, and she made headlines from coast-to-coast for regularly winning races against men, much to their chargrin.

She competed in a wide variety of cars including a Ferrari Testa Rossa, Mercedes-Benz 300SL, Lotus 18, Porsche 550 Spyder, as well as Corvettes, Jaguars, ACs, and Elvas.

Czech race-car icon Vasek Polak suggested that McGee should try motorcycle riding as it would further improve her automotive racing skills. Always looking for an edge, McGee simply said "Okay. Why not?" and got on with it.

She became the first woman to road race and hold a FIM license in the United States. At a New Years Eve party in 1963 her longtime friend, Hollywood actor, and fellow racer Steve McQueen turned to her and said "McGee, you’ve got to get off that pansy road-racing bike and come out to the desert."

She took McQueen's challenge and in the years to follow she began racing off-road and in desert endurace racing events. She rode a Husqvarna solo in the Baja 500, passing 17 two-man teams. She raced in the Baja 1000 and became the first woman to ever do so.

Her full list of achievements is extensive and earlier this year a film about her life was released called Motorcycle Mary. You can see the trailer here:

[Everso Biggyballies]

RIP Mary McGee.

[Cheeveer]

Rune Tobiasson, twice Swedish touring car champion, in 1975 in this gorgeous CSL, passed away November 30th 87 years old.

[Everso Biggyballies]

RIP Rune Tobiasson.

As an aside the Wiki entry for the BMW CSL shows a picture of Rune reunited with his old car back in August 2009.


Interesting to read that the car is currently owned by the Swedish BMW distributor and on show in their museum in Malmo.

From this article in 2017

Rune Tobiasson

Rune has driven a lot of cars during his career as an international long-distance driver with, among others, Reine Wisell. Back then they drove the Camaro, but most of us probably remember his progress in the BMW. In 1970 came the first SM badge and in 1975 the second, Even then in a BMW but now a CSL 3.5, a car that today is with the Söderström family in Malmö and in the museum owned by the BMW importer Söderström. We have also seen Rune drive Ian Nilsson's fine Bizzarina 5300 GT Strada on the Falkenbergsbanan when a historic competition was arranged with many foreign participants. Behind that investment lay, among others, Svenerik Eriksson and Ulf Boman. Both have unfortunately left us.

. https://bilsportarvet.se/2017/08/rune-tobiasson/

Some other pics with the article on the link above.



The Bizzarina mentioned in the article



Also found a pic of the Camaro back in the day as well


Also a pic of Rune at the ETCC Donington 500 in 1984 driving a. Volvo 240.


51 cars entered. Great entry https://www.racingsportscars.com/etcc/p ... 04-29.html