RIP Wade Chamberlain

[Mark Dougherty]

Our dear friend
Wade Chamberlain passed away yesterday of a heart attack.
Words can't describe the sorrow I am feeling right now.
Prayers going out to his family.

[David Hodgkins]

NOOOOOOOO!!!

I'm so sad to hear this. Wade has been a great friend to our hobby and helped countless builders and dreamers along the way.

:(

[Garry Bopp]

Mark,

So sorry to hear this sad news. I never met Wade but know him from the forums. Prayers to the family.

Garry

[carlewms]

I was lucky enough to have met Wade as a member of the Capital Area Cobra Club; he was a great guy with a wonderful positive attitude whenever you spoke with him. He built great version of these cars and was well known as one of the best autocross drivers!

Rest in Peace Wade ...

Carl Williams

[Cobra75]

For those of you who wish to send condolences etc. to the family, I will try to post the obituary details as soon as they are available.
Scott Harrison
52315
CSX4100

Growing Old is Mandatory, growing up is Optional.

[Jeff Kleiner]

I got the news from Mark D. this morning, ironically enough while competing at an autocross and actually planned to send Wade a message at the end of the day. It's heartbreaking... I met Wade & Beth about 14 years ago and last spoke with him a just a few weeks ago. A genuine good guy. This is devastating news for our community. My heartfelt condolences to Beth, their kids and family.

Jeff

[Olli]

Very sad news.....Wade was absolutely one of the corner stones of the original FFR community. He will be missed by many. Heartfelt condolences to his wife Beth and their children.

Oliver, Joann and Ethan

[vnmsss]

Heartbroken at this sad, sad news. :( We are family here, and Wade was certainly close to all of us in the FFR community.......Prayers and deepest sympathy to Wade's family.

Karen

[2FAST4U]

I'm numb. Just friggin numb. He helped so much with my first build. His loss is tremendous. To his friends and especially to his family. A great friend, father, and husband. I'll miss his regular FB posts about his beer

[Raceral]

I posted on the other forum, but Wade was just one of the good guys. I have no other words. Makes me sick

[Randy Jones]

Wow.. I am really sorry to hear this. Thoughts are definitely with his family.

47 is way too young. Hug your family and friends.

Randy

[Tom Mauldin]

Very sad news. My prayers go out to his family.

[wallace18]

My prayers go out to his family. Never met him but read some of his posts.

[Kalstar]

47 omg... That is awful. God speed brother.

[seagull81]

Condolences and prayers for the family.

[skullandbones]

Sorry Mark. It's so hard to loss a good friend in the FFR community. Let's hope he is having a good time on the other side.

WEK.

[65 Cobra Dude]

Wade was one of the best and as Olli stated, one of the originals. For those that have met him, they will never forget his contagious positive attitude and smile. For those that will meet him up stairs, he will be easy to recognize because he'll be the guy ripping up the autoX course. I will miss you my friend. Beth and family, my heart goes out to you.

We need to come up with something to honor Wade similar to what we've done for Robert.

Henry

[Jeff Kleiner]

We need to come up with something to honor Wade similar to what we've done for Robert.

Henry

Henry,

Replied to your earlier FB message.

Jeff

[chopthebass]

Unfortunately I don't know Wade. Was he a builder or sponsor? He was obviously a very popular guy. RIP

[CraigS]

I made a brief visit to see Beth today. She is doing better than I would be in her circumstances. There were several people there helping out, so I only stayed long enough to give her a hug or two and leave my phone number and an offer of help of any kind she needs. She told me Wade had been to the docs for a standard checkup in February (I think) and had no problems. Saturday during the day he had some beer brewing friends over. Saturday evening they went to dinner. No hint of anything wrong....and then there was.

[Dave Smith]

http://www.factoryfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DSC00404.jpg

Mark Dougherty called to let me know about Wade (above on left with customer Bob Lennon in 2002). Wade was such a great guy and this is a real terrible thing. Obviously, many of you have known Wade on the forums and in person for many, many years. Wade was one of those guys that you were happy to call your friend, and he was a crazy-fast autocross racer. He was as helpful to everyone as he was selfless. This feels a lot like Robert Fedderson. Maybe we're not allowed to have the company of such great people for too long. I don't know.

On behalf of everyone at Factory Five Racing, I send out my deepest sympathies to the Chamberlain family.

Dave Smith

I looked on our Factory Five server and found these pictures of Wade from back at Carlisle in 2002.

http://www.factoryfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DSC00400.jpg
Wade and some brave customers endured rain storms during the 2002 Carlisle Show.

http://www.factoryfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DSC00401.jpg
Wade wanted to take me out in his Factory Five with his custom rain gear. Very funny guy!

http://www.factoryfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DSC00398.jpg
In such a sad and serious post, I hesitated to put these pictures up, but knowing Wade, I think he’d get a good laugh. During some torrential rain storms at Carlisle, Wade showed off his driving goggles.

Wade - we will all miss you very much.

[gwarden]

Thanks Dave for sharing these photos of Wade
I will always remember Wade as the one who would travel through anything in an open top car.
I met him at his home when I was first building my roadster such a friendly helpful guy.
I remember him at Whitby's sponging the rain water from his roadster about an inch or two deep after driving through the rain to get to the party. Before he added drain plugs to his floor boards.
We traveled with wade and Beth to the first few Ohio Cobra Club Spring Flings, and will miss him. What a loss to our FFR family
Our condolences to Beth and her family

[Cobra75]

For those of you who wish to send condolences etc. to the family, I will try to post the obituary details as soon as they are available.
Scott Harrison
52315
CSX4100

This is to confirm that the Memorial Service for Wade will be held on Friday, April 8 at 1PM at the Airlie Pavilion in Warrenton, Va
The Pavilion is next to the formal gardens. Guest parking is nearby.
Beth indicated the tone of the service will be a celebration of Wade's life.
Address:

Airlie
6809 Airlie Road
Warrenton, Virginia 20187
Phone: 540-347-1300

WEB site: http://www.airlie.com/

Directions/map: http://www.airlie.com/map

Growing Old is Mandatory, growing up is Optional.

~~~

[Bob lennon]

Dave,

Thanks for posting the photo.

Great memories.

Our loss is profound.

Bob Lennon

[Cobra75]

52503

[Rscocca]

Never met Wade but chatted with him a few times, Great guy who will be missed by all he touched.

[CraigS]

We went to the Celebration of Wade's Life yesterday. I continue to be amazed at the tremendous circle of friends he had. I will estimate there were 100+ people there. I don't know his work, extended family, or beer brewing friends, but our local Capital Area Cobra Club was well represented. What blew me away was how many local DC area autocrossers attended also. I saw at least a dozen that I recognized. 10 of those run other classes than ours. They are all younger, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, than I, which means they needed to take a day off work w/ probably 3 days notice. Next weekend I run a BMW autocross on Sat. and an SCCA autocross on Sunday. I will be there, I will probably have fun, but it will be much less fun than it might have been.

[Cobra75]

Wade Photos......

:( https://goo.gl/photos/f5cJLnpZ9NwTAt1z8

[prophet]

Wow. I just read this in Dave's message in the newsletter. RIP Wade.