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Double-amputee Alex Zanardi ready for Daytona 24 hour race
Fox News ^ | 25 Jan, 2019

Posted on 01/25/2019 6:10:47 PM PST by MtnClimber

Every now and then Alex Zanardi has a chance encounter with someone who reminds him there's never any reason to feel sorry for himself, not that he ever had during his two vastly different lifetimes: the one with legs, and the other as a double-amputee....

Only Zanardi has never complained, not even in the immediate moments after he awoke in a hospital room in Germany without his legs.

Both had been severed in a horrific crash during a 2001 race at EuroSpeedway Lausitz, four days after the Sept. 11 attacks, a weekend in which CART was the only U.S.-based sports league to compete as scheduled. Zanardi was a two-time CART champion recently returned from a second stint in F1 and had plowed through the field to lead laps for the first time since he'd left the series after his 1998 title.

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To: MtnClimber

No fair! His feet won’t swell up.


21 posted on 01/26/2019 6:34:05 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MtnClimber

Zanardi in for his second stint. No steering wheel swap problems this time.


22 posted on 01/26/2019 8:50:18 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber; Chode; Lockbox; carriage_hill; All

ALONSO WINS !!!


23 posted on 01/27/2019 12:31:29 PM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes it did get pretty ugly quick.


24 posted on 01/27/2019 12:33:56 PM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: mabarker1

can’t stand the lil sh1t but good on him...


25 posted on 01/27/2019 2:06:03 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: mabarker1

The rain was crazy, talk about hydroplaning!


26 posted on 01/27/2019 4:14:57 PM PST by Lockbox
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To: mabarker1

24hrs of Daytona was today?
I missed it!
My bad, dumb, stupid, idiot, moron!!


27 posted on 01/27/2019 6:31:13 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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