Prayers.. Rick Dekneef lost his life at Silver State Race.

[Chassisman]

A good friend from right up the road Rick Dekneef lost his life over the weekend running the Silver State Race.
Merle Hill from Ely,Nv also perished in the crash....they were running the 180 target class.
GOD SPEED RICK.

[Bob Holmes]

Wow, that is tragic. My condolences.

What was he driving? And is there a media report?

[TheSilverBuick]

I heard about that this morning. Merle was a truck driver here, and actually the ex-boyfriend of one of my employee's.

Was it in the F1 truck?

[SuperBuickGuy]

RIP

[A/Fuel]

Thats sad. Sorry.

[Blazerteam]

Sad..R.I P.

[Chassisman]

They were in Ricks 94 Camaro.... it was red... back in May they hit 190 in it.....

Here's a short article... http://www.elynews.com/articles/2011...ews/news10.txt

Rick ran NHRA classes for years...back in the early 90's when Nostalgia Drags took off he ran a T-Altered called RATS. When I shut down my race car buildind shop I refered custoers to Rick in Kerman. Recently he was heavily involved with Rocky out at Eagle Field as race operations manager.

Rick will be missed by many....he was a kick to be around and packed alot of life into his years.

[TheSilverBuick]

Ah, he's ran it a number of times in that Camaro if I'm not mistaken. I'll be interested to hear the results of the investigation. Two or so years ago I think it was that car blew an oil line just past me and I watched a cloud of smoke trail the car. He stopped at a gate my friend was working and later gave him a copy of the in car video, they were north of 160mph when the whole cabin filled with smoke, amazingly didn't run off the road then since it was on a curve. Just flat sucks all the way around.

[Chassisman]

He blew a tire.... was running right around 200....the car left the road...rolled 10-15 times and burst into flames. Reliable source I talked to said it was ugly....and he's sure they didn't suffer at all. Knowing Rick...he was more pissed than scared.

[TheSilverBuick]

Damn....

[Chassisman]

Gotta love the "NARROWS" and this is in a stock car...unlimited goes through there HAULING AZZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiCfcj8Tb-A&feature=related

Here's how it looks in the unlimited class....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzlYe_OQ04Y&NR=1

[TheSilverBuick]

My video's.

May 2010

September 2009

[sedandelivery55]

Tragic news, I seen it online at lunch today. May they both rest in peace.

[Chassisman]

Local news coverage on Ricks passing....... http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/video?id=8361843

[Stich496]

sorry for your loss..

maybe the 200mph class needs the nascar roll cage..
tons of pre c.o.t. cars to pick from..
what class would a car like that run..??
say a 2010 nationwide car