Friday, September 28, 2012

ALERT: Long-time racing journalist Chris Economaki dies

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Friday, September 28, 2012                 

Chris Economaki, working for ABC-TV's Wide World of Sports, talks with drag race driver Shirley Muldowney.
Long-time racing journalist Chris Economaki dies
By Leo Levine | 09/28/12, 8:41 am et
Whoever you are, wherever you are, take a moment to think of Chris Economaki. Make it your personal tribute, however brief, to this grand old man of auto racing journalists because he left us late Thursday, Sept. 27 at age 91, and he left a hole in the motorsports firmament that can never be filled.
Whether you have ever read National Speed Sport News before or are a longtime subscriber, whether you realize it or not, a portion of your outlook regarding automobile racing has been formed by his weekly column. It was required reading for any serious racing journalist in this country, and his opinions invariably had some influence on all of us. We knew that he knew. He may have been a pedestrian writer, but as a reporter, commentator and interpreter of events, he had no peer....


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