Alex Zanardi is an inspiration to anyone who has dealt with hardship.
There is an AP story in today's Toronto Star, about his recent outing in a Sauber F1 car.
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PAUL LOGOTHETIS // ASSOCIATED PRESS
"VALENCIA, Spain—Alex Zanardi nestled himself into the car, fiddled with the buckles on his helmet until they were just right, then accelerated past a crowd of onlookers and on to the track. After driving four laps in a modified BMW-Sauber C24-B, the Italian pulled into pit lane just like any other Formula One driver.
But Zanardi is no regular professional race car driver: he has no legs.
"To put a guy with no legs, a handicapped athlete, into an F1 car, it's a good thing," Zanardi said yesterday after becoming the first double amputee to test drive a Formula One car.
"This is why I'm so proud to be the one who is doing this, because for me I don't look at it from this point of view, but inevitably there will be a lot of people who will say, `Sometimes I play in life, but look at that guy — he's driving an F1 car.'"
... continued at the link above
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