stereo steve
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 Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: travis bickel |
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this is quite a story. a few minutes durin' the grand am this story was told. 85 people received life givin' organs after travis' passin'!!!!
"IN MEMORY OF TRAVIS": The Chip Ganassi Racing family mourns the loss of its team member, Travis Bickel who passed away from a massive stroke at age 38 after returning home in Indianapolis from the Watkins Glen Grand-Am race on August 10. Travis’ role as a team engineer on the No.19 CGRFS Rolex car was only a small portion of the way he lived out his passion for motorsports. Throughout the years, his love of motorsports had him taking on a vast variety of duties as engineer, mechanic, crew chief, car chief, designer, programmer, sponsor recruiter, dirt tire sales, and even directing team logistics, public relations and maintaining a website.
Travis worked in everything from Grand Am Sports Cars, Infiniti Pro, World of Outlaws, NHRA, SCCA, World Sports Car, NASCAR Truck Series, NMMA Class ‘A’ Midgets, and All-Pro late models. Back home in Oklahoma he was chief mechanic and jack-of-all-trades with Turner Motorsports and Neighbors Racing. Travis was particularly proud of 27 USAC Sprint Car wins. He also worked with Mo Nunn Racing and Panther in recent years.
Most importantly, at the age of 16, Travis had already made the decision to be an organ donor should something happen to him. His wife Lisa knew this and made sure his wishes were honored. Eighty-five people were given the gift of life last week thanks to Travis. Even more remarkable, Mike O’Gara who is another team engineer and Travis’ co-worker was touched by Travis’ donation. O’Gara’s father-in-law had been on a kidney transplant list for quite sometime. And he was one of those lucky people thanks to Travis’s gift!
The team will be sporting "In memory of Travis Bickel" on the team cars next weekend and through the end of the season.
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