SNAPSHOT: A ‘wheely’ cool lesson in racing at Capital Region BOCES
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- • Retired race car driver Scott Hamel showed his 1963 Corvette Pro Mod to Automotive Trades Technology students.
- • Hamel, a wheelchair user since a teenage accident, taught a lesson on racing and rewarded the students.
- • The visit was a reward for the students' hard work in the Automotive Trades Technology program.
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Retired race car driver Scott Hamel recently showed off his 1963 Corvette Pro Mod race car this week to students in the Automotive Trades Technology program at the Career and Technical Education. A teaching assistant on the Capital Region BOCES campus, Hamel brought the car into students for a lesson, as well as a reward for the year of hard work they have put into learning. Hamel, who uses a wheelchair as a result of an accident when he was a teenager, raced for more than four decades before retiring from the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series eight years ago. (Photo [...]
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