Thread: Mel Cornett
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ronmil (Offline)
  #2 1/9/08 3:18 PM
Originally Posted by Gregg:
Heard from a reliable source on another website that veteran short wheel driver Mel Cornett passed away.

http://http://www.trackforum.com/for...d.php?t=100907
Sorry to hear that. I believe he won the last USAC sprint car feature ever by an Offenhauser powered car at Terre Haute in 1973. Seems that I saw him take a spectacular spill at IRP on a Thursday Night Thunder show when somebody put a wheel into him.

Ron Miller