RIP Dan Wheldon

m4a1mustang · 10-25-2011, 09:07 AM

Very cool that you guys knew Dan personally.

scottIN · 10-25-2011, 10:18 AM

Y'know how when someone passes you always hear what a great person they were? And they sound so wonderful you almost can't believe it? Dan really was that way.

Like at lunch at the track. He'd go get his lunch at the counter (just like everyone else) and then he'd go find the biggest group of kids he could to sit and have lunch with. He'd talk to them, ask them how their race that day went, etc. I think it made his day to know that he made theirs. I know hundreds of kids over the years went back to school on Monday and got to tell their friends that they had lunch with the Indy 500 winner.

10-25-2011, 09:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
m4a1mustang A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Northern VA Posts: 55,385 Drives: on two wheels Rep Power: 6963	Very cool that you guys knew Dan personally. __________________ - Steve Zs & Coffee - Saturdays at 10AM in Fairfax, VA and Columbia, MD (Click the banner!) LIKE us on Facebook!

10-25-2011, 10:18 AM	#2 (permalink)
scottIN Track Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: New Castle, Indiana Posts: 764 Drives: '12 370Z Rep Power: 55	Y'know how when someone passes you always hear what a great person they were? And they sound so wonderful you almost can't believe it? Dan really was that way. Like at lunch at the track. He'd go get his lunch at the counter (just like everyone else) and then he'd go find the biggest group of kids he could to sit and have lunch with. He'd talk to them, ask them how their race that day went, etc. I think it made his day to know that he made theirs. I know hundreds of kids over the years went back to school on Monday and got to tell their friends that they had lunch with the Indy 500 winner.