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On SCCA's Participant Insurance

Managing SCCA Participant Insurance Yeah, I did a boo-boo.  Backed a race car into a wall at VIR at around 100 or so (maybe more, I dunno). It made a big noise. And it actually hurt bad enough where I was asked the basic "how many quarters are in a dollar" and promptly taken away in an ambulance to visit a local hospital “for further diagnosis.” Having had my bell rung pretty good (I was even "out" for a short bit) I wasn’t in any position to argue about it. As it continued to hurt like hell in the hospital, the diagnosis (nothing major was obviously broken) was positive enough that they released me later that afternoon. It continued to hurt bad enough that I could not drive myself home to Connecticut. Fortunately, local friends were happy to invite me into their home for a week to recuperate (and were entertained enough to give me a lot of teasing over it); a good buddy drove me there, where I stayed for that week. I did eventually get home and with two months of