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I got word this afternoon that Carl McAllister passed today. Carl raced with LRRS for several years and was a fixture at the racetrack for a long time. He was a good friend to many of us and was always one to add a little laughter to any situation. He helped me personally with my racing for several seasons both at LRRS events and traveling around the country, and is a person who I can count among my closest friends. We shared many good times....more than I can recount.
Carl took over the track day school run by George DeCamp for several years and put on events for fellow enthusiasts for several seasons. This was never much of a profit center, more just a labor of love. He enjoyed spending time at the track perhaps as much as anything else in his life. His father introduced him to motorcycles at a young age and this passion for our sport stuck with him throughout his life. I was very happy to be able to dedicate my Loudon Classic race win to him....it was perhaps the most meaningful thing that I could think to do, and gave me extra strength to work very hard to do all I could to succeed in that effort.
Carl was always unabashedly himself, never pretending to be anything he was not and always making an effort to be friends will all. His professional life was that of a photographer, and we was always willing to share his talents with anyone he could (some of us saw more than we even wanted....lol). Above all, Carl was an honest man and true to himself in anything he did. He was fiercely faithful to those that he cared about, and this included everyone from his friends at the track to his wife Aida, who made him very happy in the past few years. God Speed my friend, you will be sorely missed but remembered fondly forever.
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