Talk:Ron Fellows

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He began his career in Karts at the late age of 24, which lead to Formula Ford 1600 and Formula Ford 2000. When funds for these projects ran low, he left racing for a 9 year stint as gas pipeline worker. Fellows returned to the track in the 1980s with help from driving school instructor Richard Spenard.

There's something wrong with the time-line here. If Fellows was born in 1959 then he would be 24 in 1983. Nine years after age 24 would have been 1992, but the article says he returned to racing in the 80s, which I can confirm because I was in the pit lane at Sanair beside Spenard when Fellows won there in '86 or '87.

The numbers don't add up. Does anybody know which one is wrong?

--Tedd (talk) 02:57, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The phrase "at the late age of 24" seems to have been the problem. I confirmed by email with a former colleague of Fellows that he raced Formula Ford around 1978 or 1979, when he would have been 19 or 20 years old. (I realize that doesn't meet Wikipedia reference standards, but then neither did the original sentence.) The remainder of the paragraph matches information on the Ron Fellows web site. I have removed the phrase "at the late age of 24" from the article. --Tedd (talk) 18:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]