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Remembrance.(Column)(Obituary)
Byline: Steve Thompson
Like me, Dale Prochaszka was an Air Force NCO stationed in England in the late 1960s. While I was racing motorcycles, Dale was driving Formula Fords in the series run by the Jim Russell school at Snetterton. I'd met Dale when I sold him a Bedford van. He was skilled and talented, but Lady Luck abandoned him one Sunday at Mallory Park.
As he approached the entry of Gerard's, the very fast first turn of the circuit, instead of slowing, Dale went straight over the berm on the outside of the turn. His Lotus 51C sailed through the air and landed on all four wheels. He was dead by the time anyone got to him. His death stunned all who knew him, not least because nobody knew why the crash had happened.
Curious recently about whether the Internet might yield new information about Dale and his terrible crash, I Googled his last name as I remembered it (without the s) and got an instant hit on the site www.motorsportmemorial.org. "The objective of this website,'' the home page declares, "is to honour the memory of all those that paid motorsport's saddest price-by remembering their ...
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