BUNBURY SPEEDWAY 2004
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2004 - JACK HEWITT FUNDRAISING DINNER 27th January 2004This event was organised by a well known worker for speedway and for the cerebral palsy association in Rod Bain, The USA sedan and sprintcar champion Jack Hewitt was a patron for the cerebral palsy association and attended the function making a speech on many of his memories, as Jack confessed to the room he was not as sharpe as he once was
and they may have to pull him up if he repeated himshelf, that however was not to be the case. As Jack moved through his address he moved that entire room through all sorts of emotions from comedy to other moments of glazed eyes and quivering lips back to tears of laughter. Jack covered the whole story from the people, the cars, the disputes and the crashes that had led to his state of partial incapacitation and his recovery that has defied the medical world, he touched on what the doctors told him he would never do like swallow, talk, walk or drive a race car. Jack stated he had ticked all the boxes over the years except one, that was drive a race car and he was going to do that to, all the best Jack Hewitt. The auction conducted by Ron Krikke was a huge success raising many dollars for the cause. |