Porsche petition - please sign

[Pine]

E-mail as received:

Dear Porsche Friend,

In memory of Sean Edwards help make a difference

It is unfortunately on a very sad note we send out this email to all our members requesting your help with a very noble cause.

For those of you that don’t know Sean Edwards, British race driver and current Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup leader was tragically killed in a fatal accident on Tuesday 15th October 2013 at the Queensland raceway in Australia while giving a private training session to a fellow driver. Our sincere condolences go out to his family and our thoughts and prayers are with them in this time of great sadness.

Sean is the current Mobil 1 Supercup leader with only two rounds to go and in an attempt to honour him some of his fellow drivers and race fans alike are petitioning Porsche Motorsport to run the last two rounds of the Mobil 1 Supercup as non- points rounds thus handing Sean the championship.

We ask if you would consider reading and signing the petition shown below if you are in agreement and help to try and convince Porsche motorsport that this is the right and honourable thing to do in the circumstances. Just click on the link shown below to sigh the petition.

Thank you for talking the time to read this,

The Porsche Planet team

Petition to Porsche Motorsport
http://www.change.org/petitions/porsche ... eipt#share

Porsche, you have the opportunity do something rare and very special. We are asking you to elect to hold the final two rounds of the 2013 Porsche SuperCup (rounds 8 and 9 on November 2/3 at the Yas Marina Circuit) as non-points scoring rounds.

We believe that the rightful champion of the 2013 season has already been crowned, however he won't be able to attend the final race to make it a formality. Racers and fans around the world are mourning the loss of driver, Sean Edwards, who currently leads the Supercup Championship by 18 points, with 3 wins in 7 races. With a win being worth 20 points, and Sean never having finished lower than 5th, he was bound to be champion. If his nearest competitor were to win both races at the final round, Sean would only need to match his worst finish so far (5th) and the championship would still go to him. If Sean were to win the first race of the weekend, he could park his car and score no points during race 2 - and still be champion. Even his competitors can't argue: Sean Edwards has dominated Porsche Supercup this year. He deserves the title.

We want to make sure that Sean goes down in the record books as he was in the hearts and minds of his family, friends and competitors: a Champion. Please dedicate the final two races of Porsche Supercup to Sean Edwards, implore your drivers to race in his honour and put on a fantastic show for the fans. Pay them their prize money and hire the good ones to factory drives for next year. But do not award them any points.

Please, Porsche; make Sean Edwards your 2013 SuperCup champion and celebrate in his honour at the championship party in Abu Dhabi.

Thank you,

Racing fans, Porsche fans and Sean Edwards fans everywhere

[Pine]

From Wiki:

Sean Lawrence Guy Edwards (6 December 1986 – 15 October 2013) was an English professional racing driver, whose career highlight was winning as co-driver the 2013 Nurburgring 24 Hours.

He died as a passenger in a private testing incident on 15 October 2013, at a raceway in Queensland, Australia.

Early and personal life

Edwards was born in London on 6 December 1986, the son of racing driver Guy Edwards.

He was educated at Wellington College and Cherwell College in Oxford. He lived and was based in Monaco.

Career

Edwards started racing at the age of eleven taking part in karting competitions.

After gaining fourth place in the 2003 British Formula Ford Championship, he gained 5th in the 2004 Formula Renault UK, and fifth in the 2005 British GT Championship.

Moving to Monaco, he then undertook drives in various years of the FIA GT3 European Championship, the Porsche Supercup (latterly with Team Allyouneed) and the American Le Mans Series (with MOMO NGT Motorsport).



In May 2013 he won the Nurburgring 24 Hours, his first major victory in endurance racing, driving a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 alongside Bernd Schneider, Jeroen Bleekemolen and Nicki Thiim.

One of the first professional racing drivers to embrace Sim racing as a means of development and training, in 2012 he assisted with the racing scenes in Ron Howard's film Rush, about the battle between James Hunt and Niki Lauda in the 1976 Formula One season. The younger Edwards also portrayed his father in several scenes of the film, the latter being among the drivers who pulled Lauda from the burning wreckage of his formula one racing car during the 1976 German Grand Prix



Death

On 15 October 2013 Edwards was killed in a crash during a private session at Queensland Raceway in Willowbank, Queensland, Australia as a passenger whilst instructing Will Holzheimer of Dellow Racing in a Porsche 996 Supercup car.

Holzheimer was treated at Royal Brisbane Hospital for injuries and burns.

[vw59beetle]

Very sad indeed. Doing what you love , but not being in control is probably the worst. I don't like being the passenger on the track. Almost every time that someone invites me to join them for a ride , we end up in the Kitty litter. We will be at Kyalami on Saturday. Let's hope all goes well. I will definitely do a lap in memory of Sean, a fellow Porsche enthusiast.
Wernher