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FIRST PERSON/OPINION

Via e-mail:

Thanks for the info on Jack Hart’s untimely passing. I raced against Jack for many years and he was a fierce competitor. He believed in the sport and was a great promoter of sidecar racing.

Godspeed, Jack.

Regards,

Larry Coleman
Chico, California

P.S. Thanks for the Superside updates. It is much appreciated that someone still recognizes sidecar racing.

FIRST PERSON/OPINION

Via e-mail:

I remember the first time I met Jack Hart, he and Bruce Lind arrived at Westwood (long-gone track the government was going to replace in British Columbia, Canada) in the mid-1970s. Stole the show, really. Sidecars in that period were well, afterthoughts, more rust and oil-down potential than much else, and working tech with Allen Seddon was usually an argument just waiting for the next rig to be pushed in.

That all changed that day, when Jack and Bruce pushed that rig in. Magnificent piece of engineering that was straight out of European World Championships, state of the art, prepared as those who know Jack and Bruce would come to understand as just doing it right. Everyone who was there that day saw the gauntlet was dropped, and sidecars would never be the same. For not only were the team and the rig gorgeous, they cleaned up–nobody else was even close. Sidecar racing got better and better over the years as did the two men who raced that beautiful rig. I will always remember seeing that rig on the back of Jack’s El Camino in the pits, perfect.

Thanks, Jack Hart, and Godspeed

Robert Timco
Castor Bay, Auckland, New Zealand

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