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Paralyzed Driver Says There’s More to Come after Podium Finish in First Michelin Pilot Challenge Race By Jeff Olson February 16, 2022 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Deep in the comments of one of Robert Wickens’ Instagram posts is one from someone he’s never met: You’re so inspirational.It could have been any of the 319 comments on a workout video viewed more than 33,000 times. Like many of the comments, inspiration is the theme. Wickens didn’t intend to be an inspirational figure. He didn’t share the agony, challenges and progress of his rehabilitation or the photos of his wedding, standing...

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...