[rjbh20]

This one really hurts. I had the great pleasure of visting with Mac every year at Monterey and held him in the highest regard as a gentleman of grace and class. Watching him roar his immaculate Cobra around the hillis of Laguna Seca is the main reason I've gone back every year since I first saw him in 1997. Fittingly, it was the year Shelby was featured.

I remember the anger I felt at the 2002 event (Corvette year) when Mac got T-boned in turn one by some Corvette yoicks driving over his head. Bad enough to be punched out of the race, but it also meant that he had to miss the next year's event, when Ford racing had its 100th anniversary.

Mac always struck me as the complete picture of a gentleman racer, both in terms of his nature as a man and his remarkable talent in the cockpit of "Old Bertha" #22. I'll still be at Monterey this year, but it won't be the same at all.

Rest in peace.