Zanardi heeft alweer gekart!

[Mark]

bron weet ik niet, las dit op een nederlands forum:

October 13th, 2002 - Sometimes human being needs to feel strong emotions to prove himself to be alive, for this reason a few of us decided to be a car racing driver.
One of them, Alessandro Zanardi, one year ago was unluckily prevented to continue to have those strong emotions but it seems he wishes to continue to prove himself to be alive notwithstanding his disablement.
When he was invited to take part to the 2nd Karting Star Cup in Montecarlo, he probably accepted willingly for two main reasons, because it was a charity race but also because he wanted to put himself under test.
Unluckily it was not possible for him to take part to the race due to a problem on his kart during the warm-up session, but he was able the same to test it and, above all, to have strong emotions again.
During his career he did it thousend times, a normal operation for a "normal" driver but, this time, to have his racesuit on again, it was a special moment for Alessandro: "Three days ago I tried to get into my racesuit again and, honestly, I must tell that when I closed the zipper and I saw myself on the mirror, it was an intense moment. Luckily I was alone so I enjoyed that moment ..... it was nice to see my entire figure in the mirror ...".
Dear Alessandro, seeing you wearing your racesuit it was moving also for us ....

[Werner333]

Heel positief voor Alex.

[redje]

Zanardi is echt nie te stoppen. Hij blijft altijd doorzetten.

[flugel]

Autosport = ferme verslaving

[Piet Konijn]

Originally posted by flugel
Autosport = ferme verslaving

als ge dat maar weet!!!! en heel besmettelijk ook

[Raceboy]

ah is hij zich aan het voorbereiden op de belkarting ?

[Driesco]

Als ge da maar weet, en slagen gaat hij krijgen. Witte, da is één van de te kloppen mannen hé. En nie van uw ideale lijn afwijken hé.

[Flitser]

Je vindt er alles (of toch veel) van terug op http://digilander.libero.it/alexzanardifan/

Hoogstwaarschijnlijk dus ook de bron van de post van Marshall.

[speedkicks]

Sommige mensen hebben toch een ongeloofelijke drang om hen steeds weer te bewijzen he.
Zou dit door beroemdheid en het zogezegde zwarte gat komen of zijn deze mensen alla Zanardi en Marc Herremans gewoon echte toppers en vechters tot hun laatste snik???

[Raceboy]

verlamd vanaf u benen. Niet meer racen zegt u ? no way

GOODY'S DASH RACER RAY PAPROTA DRIVING AGAINST THE ODDS
Seventeen years ago, Ray Paprota was paralyzed from the waist down in an automobile accident. And in a way, that was the day his life began.
Since losing the use of both legs, Paprota has counseled other disabled people, encouraging them to continue to live - not just exist. He has traveled the world playing wheelchair basketball. And next week, Paprota will try to realize another dream.
This weekend, Paprota, 38, will attempt to become the first wheelchair-bound driver to make a NASCAR race in Friday's Georgia-Pacific 150 Goody's Dash race on the quarter-mile Thunder Ring.
"This will be the realization of a lot of dreaming for us," Paprota said. "I hope I can make the race and make everyone proud."
Paprota has already made a lot of people proud. Since his injury 17 years ago, he has experienced more life than most people without a disability.
It was during rehabilitation that Paprota was introduced to wheelchair basketball by another wheelchair-bound patient. Paprota threw himself into the activity, becoming one of the best wheelchair-bound athletes in the country. He was recruited in 1992 by the Lakeshore Foundation in Birmingham and spent the next few years training for the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta. Two weeks before the final cut, Paprota tore a rotator cuff in his shoulder.
Instead of mourning his bad luck, Paprota busied himself helping out a friend, who was racing Legends cars. After a few months of working on the car, Paprota figured if he was going to be at the track every weekend, he might as well try to drive.
He refitted a Legends car so that he could drive it completely with his hands, then competed for the next five years on short tracks around the south, including Atlanta Motor Speedway's Thunder Ring.
Paprota's Legends racing career caught the attention of legendary NASCAR driver Bobby Allison, who lives nearby.
"Bobby Allison saw me race Legends cars and saw that I was real competitive," Paprota said. "He asked if I had an interest in competing at a higher level. We tried to step up and run in the ARCA series, but the controls of a Legends car are completely different, and we weren't ready to make that leap. We tried, but we never got comfortable with it. So we tabled that for a bit and tried to reengineer things."
That's when Paprota hooked up with Danny Bagwell, another Alabama resident. Bagwell had a Craftsman Truck that he tried to outfit for Paprota, but NASCAR nixed that idea because of Paprota's relative inexperience on bigger tracks.
Instead, Bagwell - a 10-year veteran of the Goody's Dash Series - offered to help build a car for Paprota. The two have worked out a system of modifications, which have been adjusted through months of trial and error. They include a CO2 bottle that runs all of the hand controls, a cable throttle that functions as a motorcycle linkage and a clutch system that is located on the shifter.
"I've been in a wheelchair 17 years," Paprota said "It teaches you to be an engineer in some aspects. Everything I do is all leverage and angles. The hardest thing is to communicate what I have in my head."
Finally the team has constructed a working model, which Paprota tested for the first time last month at a track in Pennsylvania. After a few laps of real on-track experience, Paprota had a host of changes to make in order to make the car comfortable enough to drive.
The crew - made up of a few volunteers, Paprota and Bagwell - went to work, then brought their final creation to Atlanta for an open test. Paprota logged more laps than he ever had before, suggested a few more modifications, and prepared himself to race.
"We've been working on this car for two years, and this is the first time we've really had any significant track time," Bagwell said during the Atlanta test. "And look at how happy he is. I'm just trying to help Ray make his dream come true. He's an inspiration to us all."
Paprota doesn't see it that way. Life just handed him a different deck of cards to play with. How he played those cards was his choice.
"It sounds very clichéd, but I was a week shy of my 22nd birthday when I was injured, and I don't think there's a thing I would change since then," Paprota said. "Disabilities are a magnifying glass. I wouldn't be as fulfilled as I am right now if I weren't injured. There are days when I don't want to get out of bed, I'm so sore. But I have seen people so much more disabled than me."


bron: www.atlatamotorspeedway.com

[val]

Originally posted by clioboy



als ge dat maar weet!!!! en heel besmettelijk ook

zeg ge weet toch van wie dat die quote is ? clioboy ?

[Werner333]

Inspirational former F1 driver Alessandro Zanardi drove a Kart at the recent Bologna motor show.

The Italian lost both his legs in a massive accident during a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany in September 2001 but has learned to walk again using prosthetic limbs and has been driving a road car with hand controls. His drive in the specially modified Kart marked his first appearance in a competition vehicle since the accident, and he showed that despite his impairment he had lost none of his on-track excitement, the fans responding with rapturous applause and cheers.

'To have so many people cheering me and to feel all that affection was very emotional,’ Zanardi said. ‘I can only say ‘thank you’ to all the fans for their support.

‘When I climbed into my race suit again and zipped it up, I saw myself in the mirror. That was an intense moment. Luckily, I was alone so I could really enjoy it.

‘It was great to see my entire body in the mirror. Then climbing into the kart was just incredible.’

Zanardi led the race of capable kart pilots before spinning, but that not detract from the experience.

‘I’m not disappointed I didn’t win - just extremely happy to be there,’ he beamed, before adding that he still had a strong desire to race again professionally.

‘The desire is still there for sure,’ the 36-year-old declared.
Bron: http://www.dailyf1.com/

[Scapa]

Hij denkt er zelf aan om terug in de CART-series gaan te rijden volgens crash.net...

[Piet Konijn]

Originally posted by val
zeg ge weet toch van wie dat die quote is ? clioboy ?

Hey Val alles kits, ik weet inderdaad van wie die quote is, hij komt van Mario Andretti!!!!


Wanneer gaan we nog eens naar Biazard, was wel tof de vorige keer!!!!

Greetz
Matthieu Geerinckx