once a racing driver always a racing driver.
no matter what.
A model example is the double Indy Cart champion, Alex Zanardi.
The 52-year-old Italian was brutally changed his life in motor sport’s worst accidents, where the doctors first had to amputate both legs to save him.
Although he has been one of the world’s very best paracyklister and won both the OLYMPICS and WORLD cup-gold, is the heart is not stopped to knock on the fast cars.
When the first storløb, the Daytona 24 hours, driven in the last weekend of January, is the driver, all of which will talk about the returning Alex Zanardi.
in Addition to the prestigious Indy Cart career, he has been running Formula 1 in two stages, among other things, for Jordan and Willams.
The experienced running without legs has really stolen the attention from the Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso, Spain, Formula 1’s ‘rekordmand’ Rubens Barrichello, Brazil, Indy 500 winners Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombia and Helio Castroneves, Brazil.
the Accident, which changed Alex the Renowned life so radically, it happened at the Lausitzring in the old DDR, where, following the example of the united states has been built a high speed line in an old kulmineområde.
Why was the american Cart-series on the gæstevisit in september 2001.
With 13 laps back it went wrong for Alex Zanardi.
After a last pitstop he was back on the cold deck, and as he was about to get the racing car up at top speed, spun he around and lost control over the muscular racing car.
the Italian smoke across the track and was hit with 322 km per hour by canadian Alex Tagliani.
the Collision was so fierce that Alex the Renowned race car at the nearest split in two.
So brutal was the accident, when Alex Zanardi crashed in a race in Germany. Photo: Onlinesport
He was so severely injured that the doctors first had to amputate one leg at the hip and the other at the knee.
Simultaneously he was given lots of blood, because he was forbløde.
The brutal incident was just one of several, in the same year on the track close to Cottbus.
Denmark’s biggest name, Tom Kristensen lost among others, his mentor, Michele Alboreto, of Italy, who was killed during an Audi test prior to Le Mans, while a marshall was killed in connection with a second test.
Some years after the accident to be able to Alex Zanardi run in various standardvognsløb, but his name appeared first seriously up again, since he of all the places at the WORLD cup in paracykling in Roskilde 2011 won the silver.
the Year after, it was for OLYMPIC gold in London, and that was on the new OLYMPIC gold four years later in Rio de Janeiro.
In the intervening years, he has also won one WORLD cup medal after another in the ‘håndcykling’.
After the motor sport has Alex Zanardi embarked upon paracykling, where he is among the world’s very best. Photo: PHOTOSHOT
Now he’s back behind the wheel on the big stage in Daytona, Florida, where he is one of the drivers in a BMW M8 in the GT Le Mans class.
One of the competitors is the defending u.s. sportsvognsmester Jan Magnussen in the Corvette, as in the test the other day turned out to be icy and was running fastest of all in the class.
the Latter will of course have a Danish company, in the form of the former champion Christina Nielsen in the GT Daytona class is in a car with only female drivers.
She is incredibly omsværmet.
After the race at Daytona, she continues to Australia to the famous Bathurst 12 hours, which is also where the new Danish BMW-fabrikskører Mikkel Jensen is in the boot list.
the Course has a Danish imprint, as the battle for the driver on pole position is ‘The Allan Simonsen Pole Position Trophy’.
for several years, was the latter a big name in Australia with, among others, with a fastest lap, which went several years before it was broken.
It was the ‘down under’, to fynboen laid the foundation for his career, which was a tragic end at Le Mans in 2013.
