I'm very sad to send this very bad news to you.

Corey Rudl, age 34, of MarketingTips.com was killed
on the scene yesterday June 2, when the Porsche
Carrera GT racing car in which he was riding as a
passenger crashed and caught fire after going more
than 100 m.p.h. at California Speedway in Fontana.

The driver Benjamin Keaton, 39, died an hour later
while on the way to the hospital.

According to the Supervising Deputy Coroner, Randy
Emon, "The driver's side was in good shape, but
the passenger side was obliterated."

I was a member of Corey's MarketingTips.com and
I am really very sad to hear of his death.

Here is a link to the news:

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4562562/detail.html

Corey was perhaps the most successful internet marketing
guru, many steps ahead of everyone else. He always
taught the rest of us very good advice. Corey had
everything to live for, and who knows what he might have
achieved if he had lived another 40 years, at least.

It is very sad for me to think that he died needlessly,
as a passenger of a speeding race car, on a race track,
racing for the thrill of speeding, for the thrill of
the risk. I think they were not even competing, just
driving like mad.

In Corey's memory I ask everyone who reads this post to
always PLEASE VALUE YOUR LIFE above everything else. No
thrill is ever worth the risk of losing your life. Please
don't ever ride in speeding cars if you can help it...
never as a driver, and never as a passenger. NOTHING ELSE
kills as many persons in traffic accidents as SPEEDING.

In this case it happened on a RACE TRACK, which is worse
because it was a sport, they probably did it before, were
doing it yesterday when death caught up to them, and would
have done it again some other day if they could have...

I admire athletes, but I don't think anything is worth
betting your life for the thrill of it, because you might
lose. If you seek thrills, try parachute jumping which is
really a very safe sport... or scuba diving, or even bull
fighting... All of these are much safer than speeding or
race car driving. Better, don't practice dangerous sports.

I'm really sad... My thoughts and condolences to his family.

- Ellis