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jigou

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Many of you who raced in the Midwest Division "back in the day" knew Bill Kucera. Sadly, Bill lost his battle with kidney cancer this past weekend.

 

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RIP, friend!

 

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Condolences to his friends and family.  

 

The name sounds very familiar...


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I had some Kucera's in my family way back, blood relatives on my mom's side.  I always fancied we might be somehow related.  Sad to see him go, he was fun to talk to.


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Thanks for posting this Jarrod, I'm surprised I hadn't seen it earlier considering how much time I spend reading posts on the forums.

 

For those of you that don't know I'm Bill's son in law.  Before he passed he signed his car over to me so I could have my dream of driving a race car.  I have resurrected it from a 4-5 year hiatus of sitting in his shop and it's running good.  I had it out at the Iowa Speedway for a PDX event in August and it was a blast.  I'll look to do the drivers school in 2014 and then hit the track.  So next year if you see a red #14(assuming number is available) Miata going round the mid western tracks that's me.  

 

See you all at the track!

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Matt, welcome to the world of crazy. :crazy:

 

I kind of like that number in the CenDiv.

 

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