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Old 05-21-2022, 11:08 PM
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What happened to 24Chromium?
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ya what the heck, so sad
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What?
Old 05-22-2022, 11:33 AM
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Lar made his final pass a few days ago. No details. Sad.
Old 05-22-2022, 12:39 PM
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Great guy met him in 2014 when I did my Left Coast bucket list trip.

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So sad. I remember seeing him on track at VIR and his memorable Trailor posts!

RIP! I guess this why we race..never know when the long train comes for you..!!!
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Old 05-22-2022, 03:47 PM
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Oh no!!
One of the longstanding and experienced Rennlisters.
Very sad.
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Old 05-22-2022, 11:48 PM
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He had the most epic trailer build thread of all time. Very sad.
Old 05-23-2022, 03:20 PM
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Such a loss, Lar was awesome! Spent a lot of time on trailer projects with him, sharing ideas, CAD models, with most of it ending up in his awesome trailer diary. Shared a garage with him an Laura for a brief period of time and always enjoyed seeing him at the track. RIP buddy.
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Sorry to see this. His trailer thread was epic. RIP.
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Bummer and reminder of our fragile state. Nice guy and trailer legend.
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Holy crap, so sad! I tracked with Lar a lot before I moved from California. He was helping me adapt to driving a rear-engined car when I got my first 911.
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Cross post from https://rennlist.com/forums/gt4-spyd...-in-a-gt4.html

Originally Posted by Five12Free
Was looking at this thread at VIR times to see where I stood, but saw 24Chromium was #1 there and on a lot of the tracks on the leaderboard. I saw he passed away recently on the DE sub board. May his lap time stand for a long time. RIP.
Sad to hear this as he made me faster at Road ATL as I tired to chase him down.

Originally Posted by 24Chromium
A great day running with the local PCA chapter at Road Atlanta today. Very cool to meet some of the locals, especially GeoJoe. Sir, you are mighty quick in that car. Africa hot today, but no rain. I’m hoping that I can continue to drop time and put today’s knowledge to work in the morning. I’ll post up a lap time tomorrow.
These are the last two of 20+ laps where I was trying to catch him - and the only 1:34 I've been able to pull off there.

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Old 05-26-2022, 01:04 AM
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I always marveled at his dominance of the lap time leaderboard over in the GT4 subforum, at so many tracks across the country. RIP.


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