Re: Don Wann’s Celebration of Life
I first met Don Wann at Columbus in 1994 or 95. Don and Steve were travelling with Rob Youngblood, who had qualified for the All Star event. I too had read about Don and seen pictures of the cars that he drove for years in National Dragster. I was new to Stock Eliminator and meeting Don Wann was like standing at the ropes and getting a signature from a Pro Stock driver to me.
Don always reminded me of the Marlboro man, or an old West gunfighter: slow and quiet speaking, with lightning fast reflexes. He told me stories of not have enough money to pay the rent, so he’d go to a bracket race and win the damn thing to pay the bills! Don was quite a racer and our community will miss him.
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