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Toledo tragedy hit home at Kil-Kare
Moments before the Buckeye Winged Sprint cars took the green flag for the Friday, July 18th feature at Kil-Kare Raceway, it was announced that driver Terry Gibson of LaRue, Ohio had been killed in an accident at Toledo Speedway that same day.
Gibson was racing in a similar Sprint Car event in when he was involved in a 4-car crash. Online reports say the rear end of his racer hit the outside retaining wall at about 110 mph.
Each Winged Sprint entrant at Kil-Kare had a black strip of tape that ran diagonally through their car number in tribute to Gibson.
As it turns out, another Gibson: Zach, from Richwood, Ohio which is merely a hop, skip and a jump east of LaRue was racing in the Kil-Kare event.
Zach, who won his heat race and then went on to thoroughly dominate the feature, was Terry Gibson’s nephew.
After the race, with Zach still visibly shaken as he tried to get out of his bright-yellow 00 sprint car, it was announced that Terry Gibson had been Zach’s uncle.
In a fitting tribute, every member of the Kil-Kare audience gave Zach a standing ovation.
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