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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No fair! His feet won’t swell up.
Zanardi in for his second stint. No steering wheel swap problems this time.
ALONSO WINS !!!
Yes it did get pretty ugly quick.
can’t stand the lil sh1t but good on him...
The rain was crazy, talk about hydroplaning!
24hrs of Daytona was today?
I missed it!
My bad, dumb, stupid, idiot, moron!!
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