Les Richter Former NFL star, visionary general manager of Riverside Raceway and NASCAR executive.
Category Archives: Across the Finish Line
Across The Finish Line: Haimerl, Carter, Parks
Duncan Haimerl – The veteran, cheerful scribe who loved writing about cars died unexpectedly from a heart attack while recuperating from cancer surgery. Lenora Carter – Long time TAWA supporter, publisher of the Houston Forward Times newspaper since the 70’s and before that the paper’s managing editor and advertising manager. Mary Parks – 93-year-old widow… Continue Reading
Across The Finish Line: December 2009
Jan-Willem Vester, former Saab PR staffer.
Across The Finish Line: Gene Ritvo
Gene Ritvo — Much-loved motorsports photographer and member of NEMPA to which he contributed much humor and work and shared his outstanding photography from his annual trip to Pebble Beach.
Across The Finish Line: July 2009
Daniel Weiland – for four years a fleet driver for ESI at Dallas, Tex. succumbed on June 13 to juries incurred from a May 29 motorcycle accident.