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http://dirtracinghistory.bravehost.com/2016DriverDeathsA.html

if anyone can add any drivers not on this list please reply 

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Does anyone know where George Fisher was Born ?

Does anyonee know when Steve King # 88 was Born ?

Track Promotor Jack Gunn Date of Birth Date Of Death Where he was Born ?

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Morbid, not pertinent.

Drivers who give their lives to the sport, deserve to be remembered.  Nothing morbid about honoring their memory.

Agreed,  WHY? 

A little bit of both in  my opinion

I'm not 1 to be looking at races for the thrill of death.

When you look at this list it's more like a what happen to driver's in time.

Most are listed as natural causes, cancer ect. wich is very interesting.

Time is how you live:

No matter how you feel , get up , dress up , show up and never give up.

Ernie Derr isn't on the list. Former multi year IMCA stock car champion & member of what was called the "Keokuk Komets' along with Dick Hutcherson, Ramo Stott & Don White (Earnie's brother in law).

We are all going to die.  Somehow, someway, sometime.  Pretending we won't, or that others didn't, will not stop that.  It happens to the best of us.  So there's no sense treating death like some unpoken, taboo subject.  The only more relevant to every single one of us than death is sex.  Damn.  Can't talk about that either.

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How about Kara Hendrick, born in Encanto, CA on 9/10/69 and passed away in El Centro, CA on 10/5/91.

It doesn't seem morbid to me, as long as the subject is treated with class. Kind of like the Vietnam Memorial. While death is the absolutely worst thing about the sport, you don't give the dead the credit they are due if you don't speak there names and tell there stories.

How about Sam Erwin?

Sam was born 11/11/1934 in Lewis County Kentucky, but resided in Portsmouth, Oh. Sam was killed in an accident in a winged sprint car at Atomic Speedway on July 28th, 1973.

I've seen a version of his White Lightning Express dirt Super Modified runs with the VARC now.

Copy and pasted this from a ASCoC press release from 2003.

http://www.motorsport.com/sprint/news/allstar-erin-crocker-to-race-at-k-c-and-fremont/

Portsmouth, Ohio driver Sam Erwin who was fatally injured at the track thirty years ago in 1973. Additionally, former sprint car great and now TNN racing analyst Brad Doty will appear at K-C Friday for an autograph session.

Saturday's action moves north to the Fremont Speedway for a special 50 lap race paying $10,000 to win. K-C's event is a standard $5,000 to win All Star winner's share.

Sam Erwin was one of the first drivers at the track and one of the last ones to leave, always flashing a smile and offering an autograph to racing fans who came to the track early or left the track late. Erwin won many races at the then Atomic Speedway (now K-C Raceway) and at Skyline Speedway in Stewart, Ohio.

Driving the #710 Supermodified open wheeler, the jovial and personable driver also raced at many other tracks across the United States. A dirt track specialist, Erwin was not afraid to try the asphalt as well, racing at paved Speedways as New Bremen, Ohio and Heidleberg, Pennsylvania.

In his last couple seasons, Erwin traded in his supermodified "White Lightnin' Express" for a state-of-the-art Bobby Allen sprinter also numbered 710. Using a white suburban panel truck as a tow rig and an open trailer, Erwin's racing days seem far removed from today's fancy transporters, yet Erwin is close to many racing fans hearts still today