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April 04, 2006

Kevin York mourns the passing of a friend and racer - Rory Price

2 April 2006 - Seattle, WA / Madison, WI

Friend and racer, Rory Price, died this past Friday night at Evergreen Speedway, Monroe, WA.

The sprint car he was driving impacted a wall at the Speedway during an evening practice session.

Rory, a long-time veteran of open-wheel motorsports, was test-driving the car as a favor to the car's owner. He was taken to a Monroe hospital after the incident but did not respond to resuscitation attempts.

The practice session was a tuneup for the first races of the season, scheduled for Saturday. But the races, which were to have included 38 NASCAR elite cars and about 20 winged sprint cars, were canceled because of weather.

Within the last few years, Rory had finally gotten married and he and his wife had a baby daughter within the last year.

He was as gregarious and fun-loving as a person could be.

While he was a fierce competitor on-track, he was equally generous in sharing his time, tools and race cars with his racing peers.

In fact, Rory offered us the use of his USAC midget sprint car for a test session a few years back at Wenatchee Valley Super Oval, Wenatchee, WA. His only stipulation to us that nite? To not lap faster than him!

Frankly, words cannot express the loss of yet another stellar human being from this earth.

Godspeed in your new journey Rory.

Kevin F. York

Posted by YORK Group at April 4, 2006 10:02 PM