[Mr. Ford95]

yoop, it was prolly the season finale for the IRL at Texas in 2003. It was Kenny Brack, who was the defending IRL champ at the time who was driving for Rahal/Letterman, the same team who lost a rookie driver earlier this year at Homestead. From the team's website: "Brack suffered fractures of the L-3 spinal vertebra, right femur (leg), both ankles and the sternum and was in surgery on Sunday night to repair the femur and both ankles. Surgery is scheduled on the vertebra in the next few days." Brack had no idea what happened because it happened so fast but he touched wheels with the 3rd place car as he was trying to pass him. In open wheel racing, that is a big no-no becasue the back car will always go airborne which is what happened to Brack. His wreck was much the same as Bodine's except that it was over much quicker.

[yoopr]

nope-this happened in the 90's
You even touch one of those cars at those speeds and it spells disaster.

[heavenbound]

Mr.ford, who was the driver that lost his legs in an open wheel car accident in 01' i believe. It was after 911 when we stopped all sports that weekend, it was an over seas race, maybe Canada. Please help cause his name is on the tip of my tounge. He recovered, thank God, and later raced i beleive, not for competition tho.

[Mr. Ford95]

Alex Zanardi heavenbound. I wanna say it was in Germany, maybe wot would know better. Zanardi has since gone back to driving a little bit, he just tested an F1 car to show he could still drive.

yoop, could have been Ryan Briscoe then, he had a crash similar to Brack's. Beyond that, I really could not tell you because I did not follow open wheel racing very much.

[heavenbound]

Thanks Mr.Ford, it was a horrific crash, he's just lucky to be alive after that.