Update on Brooks Gremmels

[Rodrigo DaCunha]

This is a pretty awesome tribute:

http://www.ketknbc.com/news/brook-gr...n-wheeler-dies

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

[Danny Clark]

RIP Brooks

FYI the Roadracing world article says the date was moved to the 19th, not the 9th.

[Mark Windham]

This is a pretty awesome tribute:
http://www.ketknbc.com/news/brook-gr...n-wheeler-dies

Thanks for the link Craig. It sounds like Brooks made a positive impact in many people's lives.

[Norm McDonald]

The party is the 9th the 19 was a miss print.

[Audrey Menarik]

Oh my...... I am finding it difficult to find words. When the word broke of his cancer, of the most devious kind, it was so sad. To see a man that was so full of energy, generous, fun loving, smart and even smarter for teaching the rest of us how to be smart...... got the short end of the stick - really doesn't seem right. Sad to see you go, but blessed for the time you were with us!

[lee vrazel]

The CMRA lost a great Champion.

Race In Peace

[Angela McWilliams]

Rest in Peace and my condolences to family and friends.

[Eric Falt]

Brooks was a GREAT man, that anybody who had a chance to call Friend,was rewarded!!!! Prayers for Rese !

[Todd Gyure]

Brooks was a guy that inspired others to be selfless and generous with what one has. In the late '90's early 2000's anyone in the L/W classes in the CMRA had some great battles with Brooks. (I know I did). Brooks was the type of guy that was real fun to be around at the track because he was having so much fun racing. Around the year 2000 Brooks found out that I had never been to a pro motorcycle road race, and the next thing I knew I was flying to WSBK at Laguna on some of Brooks's airline miles. I observed Brooks donate over 34k to the RRW air fence fund and thought, hey, I can donate some to that good cause too. Just a few small examples of the high quality type of guy Brooks was. http://obituaries.tylerpaper.com/obi...&pid=169386949

[Linz Leard]

I have lots of fond memories of Brooks. He was an eclectic formula of grass roots everyman, successful and savvy businessman, and McQueen-like coolness. He once told me that, regardless of what he had become or achieved in life, he was still a hippie rock music promoter on the inside. Although I first met him some years before, I proudly served my first term on the CMRA Board of Directors along side of him in 2003, and being that Brooks was a guy that had, on several occasions, built big things from little things (or from nothing at all), I always looked to him for sound, sage advice. Yet oddly to me, since I was around the CRRC/CMRA before he was, he would, it seems, just as often ask me for historic information and my perspective on things. How does a man get to be a success like Brooks was? By being human and being more interested in you than in trying to get you interested in him. Godspeed, Brooks. Maybe I'll get a chance to ride, shoot guns, drink a Red Stripe, and bench race with you again someday.