Alex Zanardi INTERVIEW Racing Daytona, BMW M8, and THE PASS -- AFTER/DRIVE
Inspirational racing driver Alex Zanardi lost both legs in a 2001 crash. Now he's running the Rolex 24 at Daytona in a BMW M8 GTE using hand controls. Mike Spinelli sat down with the legend at Classic Car Club Manhattan. One of the great storytellers in racing. Location links below.
Contents
4:09 Learning to race with prosthetics
8:30 Convincing officials to let Alex race
14:50 New steering wheel and hand controls
18:26 ***A lap around Daytona in the BMW M8 using hand controls***
21:20 The hardest part about racing
23:36 The athletic challenges of racing
27:50 How you know when you're ready to race again
31:42 What happened during THE PASS at Laguna Seca" 38:20 Why Daytona and not Le Mans"
(Sorry about the audio at the end)
You MUST watch THAT PASS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch"v=ywsB65YfLOQ
Zanardi is also a three-time gold medalist at the Paralympic Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch"v=iaFQsN81YWQ
More at The Drive
http://www.thedrive.com
Shot and edited by Jared Auslander:
https://www.jaredauslander.com/
Thanks to IMSA, BMW Motorsport, BMW Team RLL, and Classic Car Club Manhattan
https://www.imsa.com/
https://www.bmw-motorsport.com/en/home.html
https://rahal.com/no-24-bmw/
https://classiccarclubmanhattan.com/
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