Wrenchead CEO Gus Conrades, R.I.P.

Wrenchead CEO Gus Conrades, R.I.P.

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Wrenchead.com CEO Gus Conrades died Sunday, December 3 from injuries sustained in a streetbike crash near his home in Stamford, Connecticut, says longtime friend Richie Alexander. Riding with a friend, Conrades lowsided his bike and slid underneath a stopped pick-up truck. Conrades was conscious at the time of the accident but lost a lot of blood from a compound fracture of his leg, said Alexander. Conrades died in an ambulance while on the way to the hospital.

Conrades was seriously injured in a racing crash at New Hampshire International Speedway in April of this year and had been rehabilitating a shattered pelvis through July. Then, according to Alexander, Conrades was readmitted to the hospital in August with a serious staph infection in his hip. Alexander said that doctors feared that Conrades would not survive the infection, but Conrades pulled through. “I just had dinner with him last week, and he looked real good,” said Alexander in a telephone call to Roadracing World December 4.

Conrades is survived by his wife Christine, and young son Harland. Funeral arrangements are still pending.

Wrenchead.com sponsored the Formula USA Series in 2000, largely because of Conrades’ personal interest in motorcycling in general and road racing in particular.

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