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21	22	36	1:00:00.0	Hood River HS	Student		01:36.6	44	18.0
22	10	36	1:00:24.4	Springfield HS	Student		01:40.7	58	18.0
23	153	34	1:00:00.0	Thurston HS	Student		01:17.1	65	17.0
24	101	34	1:00:07.2	Willamette HS	Student		01:46.1	36	17.0
25	95	32	1:00:01.8	Willamette HS	Student		01:52.6	5	16.0
26	222	31	1:00:00.0	Monroe HS	Student		01:35.8	75	15.5
27	152	31	1:00:00.0	Thurston HS	Student		01:43.0	22	15.5
28	346	25	1:00:00.0	Columbia HS	Student		01:31.3	41	12.5
29	107	23	1:00:00.0	Willamette HS	Student		01:30.9	7	11.5
30	25	22	1:00:00.0	Centennial HS	Student		01:34.3	25	11.0
31	42	21	1:00:00.0	Centennial HS	Student		01:36.4	2	10.5
32	344	20	1:00:00.0	Columbia HS	Student		01:32.9	11	10.0
33	105	18	1:00:00.0	Willamette HS	Student		02:29.3	46	9.0
34	170	14	1:00:00.0	West Lake Tech	Student		02:07.9	62	7.0
35	160	12	1:00:00.0	West Lake Tech	Student		02:33.0	67	6.0
36	12	7	1:00:00.0	Centennial HS	Student		01:17.8	63	3.5
37	444	2	1:00:00.0	Monroe HS	Student		01:25.2	73	1.0
38	150	2	1:00:00.0	West Lake Tech	Student		01:47.7	30	1.0

To all that raced at LCC;
I hope that you all had fun and had a good race.

I also want to say I'm sorry for the drama I created befor the first race by breaking my leg and holding up the races til the ambulance was done with me.
Just for info: I have a "tib/fib" break (a clean break of the tibia and fibula) in my lower right leg....I am seeing the Orthopedist on monday morning and if the swelling is down enough I will go in for sugery to "pin" the bones in place... if the swelling has not gone down enough the surgery will be wednesday....

BUT the main reason I am writing this is to help us ALL think about safety....

what happened is that I was taking my car down to tech inspection riding it like a scooter (I had not installed the batteries yet) and sitting on top of the roll bar... this of course made the car have a very high center of gravity & when I turned the corner at the bottom of the hill the car began to roll over I decided to jump   out of/off of   the car and my foot got caught in the break cable and held between the steering lever (push pull type steering) and the frame of the car so..... with 180lbs of car & 260lbs of driver this was enough leverage to break bones (quite well too.... the x-rays are RELLY impressive)

Now I have "ridden" cars like this many times in the past heading for tech inspection, or after a race when my batteries were dead..... and I have seen several others do so as well..... this was probably just a "freak" accident and may never happen again, but I can say with some certancy that I won't be "riding" a car like this again...

And for the rest of you folks out in Electrathon land..... PLEASE learn from my mistake and do not "ride" your cars as I was riding mine.... at the very least it is costing me some cash (at the ER and Surgery) as well as lost days at work (and the hassle it makes for my co-workers)

PLUS I won't be able to drive at PIR..... the BOSS (my wife) has suggested I might not like the "sanctions" that would be imposed on me if I tried...

So please learn from my stupidity and think about safety at all times, not just while "on the track"..... and have a good fun race at PIR

Ron Jacobson Car #13 Oregon Northwest division

-- Edited by Ron on Monday 20th of May 2013 07:05:10 AM

-- Edited by Ron on Monday 20th of May 2013 07:06:03 AM

-- Edited by Ron on Monday 20th of May 2013 07:07:10 AM

on, Thanks for the warning to all. I tried to ride mine years ago and on a corner it felt unstable so have never done it since!!!!

I will yell at everyone I see do this in the future
Mike

Oh, and congratulations to Adam McCaw for being the Northwest High school Electrathon champ this year!  I heard about what happened at Lane. Like I've said on facebook, we all have to be a little crazy to be doing electrathon racing.

Can't wait to see everyone on Saturday!

Zaine