A big double thumbs up today to Alessandro Zanardi, better known to most American racing fans as Alex. Zanardi won a gold medal in the hand cycling time trial at the Paralympic games in London today. Since losing both legs and very nearly his life in a 2001 crash, Zanardi came back to win races in the World Touring Car Championship in a BMW with hand controls and now a gold medal.
Zanardi is a prime example of living life to the fullest no matter what it throws back at you.
This Race Car Driver Went From Near Death To Paralympic Gold
Just after September 11, 2001, the CART racing series held what was pretty much the first international sporting event after the terrorist attacks at the Lausitzring Circuit in Germany.
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I still think his pass on the last lap in the corkscrew at Laguna Seca is probably the ballsiest pass ever in competitive motorsport (even if he did get all 4 wheels off the track for the next corner, which could have been penalized as voluntarily leaving the track).
I still think his pass on the last lap in the corkscrew at Laguna Seca is probably the ballsiest pass ever in competitive motorsport (even if he did get all 4 wheels off the track for the next corner, which could have been penalized as voluntarily leaving the track).