Friday, November 24, 2006

Nice story.... Zanardi drives an F1 car

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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