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Phil Read, legendary motorcyclist, had coronavirus but is now recovering. 

This is despite suffering from COPD which is supposed to be a big 'rona no-no

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.visordown.com/news/general/motorcycle-gp-legend-phil-read-recovers-covid-19%3famp

 

https://www.nwemail.co.uk/sport/18368960.les-trotter-column-best-wishes-world-champ-phil-read-cancer-battle/ However he has now got cancer to go with the COPD. Prostrate (Sigh) cancer according to this article. 

 

 

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4 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Larry Curry, a veteran IndyCar mechanic, race engineer and team owner, has died. He was 68. Curry was perhaps best known for his work as engineer at Team Menard.

 

https://www.autosport.com/indycar/news/149358/veteran-indycar-engineer-and-team-owner-dies

 

 

He was best known for stealing a million dollars from John Menard. 

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Two for the price of one. 

 

Former F1 driver Eppie Wietzes has died of heart failure

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/149922/obituary-eppie-wietzes--19382020

 

Also gone is Porsche engine design guru Hans Mezger at the age of 90.

 

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/motorsport/legendary-porsche-engineer-hans-mezger-has-died

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Vicki Wood, one of the first female NASCAR drivers, has died. She was 101. Wood set speed records for women at Daytona International Speedway and Atlanta National Speedway. She competed with men, but retired in 1963 when drivers threatened to strike if she was allowed to continue competing.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/sports/autoracing/vicki-wood-dead.html

(Behind paywall)

 

https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/vicki-wood-1919-2020-record-setting-woman-nascar-driver/

 

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Polytrauma and very critical conditions as it seems he was run over by a big vehicle. Will be very lucky to survive...

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Hope he pulls through, but not looking great. If he does die, it would seem eerily similar to Clay Regazzoni's fate - Italian-speaking F1 driver who was paralysed in a racing accident dying in a collision with a truck

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Alex is one of my very few genuine heroes. I fear the worst simply as his body went through such trauma all those years ago. 

This reminds me more of Andrea de Cesaris' fatal accident. 

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Hope he makes it. Which, given that he defied all odds by surviving his horrific de-legging in ‘01, he’s clearly strong enough to. Doesn’t sound great, though.

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6 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

Alex is one of my very few genuine heroes. I fear the worst simply as his body went through such trauma all those years ago. 

This reminds me more of Andrea de Cesaris' fatal accident. 

Yes, de Crasheris was really destined to die in a crash. Zanardi's sister was a promising swimmer who died in a traffic collision 40 years or so ago. Eerie circumstances.

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Zanardi's life is not at risk according to the hospital.

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39 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

 

Not sure why you think that. Here's a bit more from the hospital that very much says death is a possibility. 

 

https://www.motorsport.com/general/news/alex-zanardi-hospital-prognosis-surgeon/4809765/

I think that because Ansa today reported on its first page the words "Zanardi non è in pericolo di vita" attributed to the doctor who performed surgery on him. 

He has no thoracic trauma, cardiac and respiratory parameters are normal, the main risk is he reported permanent cerebral damage and could end like Schumacher. But at the moment he is not in imminent danger. 

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Couple of minutes ago, an update in German:

https://www.spiegel.de/sport/formel1/alessandro-zanardi-zustand-des-frueheren-formel-1-piloten-bleibt-kritisch-a-d251e9f8-8175-4f20-9100-a6b8ee38f35c

 

Still critical and in artificial coma, but physically somewhat stable. They worry about his brain... maybe he turns braindead.

 

Edit: Zanardi

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I think that's the crux of it. Zanardi's heart  and body will keep going, naturally or artificially. But if he's brain dead, I feel that Daniela will let nature do is course and let him go. But they will only do that if that's the only option. Schumi is not brain dead and whilst he isn't who he was, he can function to some limited degree. 

Here's hoping for a better outcome but I doubt it will occur. 

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18 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

I think that's the crux of it. Zanardi's heart  and body will keep going, naturally or artificially. But if he's brain dead, I feel that Daniela will let nature do is course and let him go. But they will only do that if that's the only option. Schumi is not brain dead and whilst he isn't who he was, he can function to some limited degree. 

Here's hoping for a better outcome but I doubt it will occur. 

Zanardi is very likely to have permanent brain damage. But it is unlikely that he is completely brain dead. He could remain minimally conscious for years, maybe hoping that he improves some day. The situation is quite unpredictable at the moment.

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17 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

British motorcyclist/superbike rider Ben Godfrey has died aged just 25 after a crash at Donnington park. 

https://www.crash.net/bsb/news/938521/1/superstock-rider-ben-godfrey-dies-track-day-accident

 

 

 

Donnington promised a "no limits" day

 

So his team can't sue them, then!

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16 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

Donnington promised a "no limits" day

 

So his team can't sue them, then!

Gosh I hadn't considered that aspect :o Cynical!

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1 minute ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

Gosh I hadn't considered that aspect :o Cynical!

 

 

Yeah, I'd love to banter with yers but there's three police and a guy in a white coat with a big needle just coming through the door!

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Oh aye, and...

 

The terse statement identifying Jessi Combs as the female land speed record holder doesn't really do justice to the story. Only just ratified as a record. She died of massive blunt force trauma during the record attempt, her boyfriend badly burning himself as he hauled her from the wreckage. Likely cause being the car colliding with something small at over 500 mph and the front wheel assembly collapsing as a result. But, a world record's a world record, eh?

 

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-land-speed-record-(female)

 

 

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