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Bryan Timothy Clauson (June 15, 1989 – August 7, 2016) [2] was an American professional auto racing driver, best known for his achievements in dirt track open-wheel racing, such as USAC Silver Crown, Midget and Sprint cars. Clauson was increasingly seen competing with the World of Outlaws (WoO) sprint cars in
A tire failure caused the car to crash into the wall and vault over the fence: died of a blood clot in the brain two days later [167] Tommy Druar (USA) 1989-06-10 Stock car Chevrolet Cavalier: NASCAR Modified Lancaster Speedway 30-lap NASCAR Modified race Race Crash - jumped wheels with another car - hit wall driver's side first [168]
This VHS video featured a compilation of footage from the first six years of American Sports Cavalcade, and it featured a plethora of auto racing and motor sports accidents, crashes, and fires in which the driver(s) beat the odds to survive the incident. Fatal accidents, as the title alludes to, were not included in this production.
Kramer Earl Williamson (June 26, 1950 – August 4, 2013) was an American sprint car racing driver. A native of Pennsylvania, he was a feature winner in World of Outlaws and United Racing Company competition, and a 2008 inductee of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. He was fatally injured in a racing accident at Lincoln Speedway.
Midget cars are smaller versions of a full size sprint car, normally non-wing only. Midgets date back to the 1930s as a very common form of sprint car racing, still very popular today and also sanctioned by USAC, POWRI, and others. They are powered by four-cylinder engines developing around 350 horsepower (260 kW), but are only similar to their ...
Thursday Night Thunder/Saturday Night Thunder is a motorsports anthology series that was originally broadcast by ESPN and ESPN2 from 1989 to 2002. The program featured coverage of short track events from dirt and paved oval tracks around the United States (primarily around the Indianapolis area), including USAC Silver Crown, midget, and sprint car races.
Ian Madsen led all 35 laps of the feature at Tulare, wiring a race that went off without an incident after a lap 1 crash saw DJ Netto flip soon after the green flag flew. Current points leader Daryn Pittman and Sheldon Haudenschild rounded out the podium.
On July 21, 1990, during the Joe James / Pat O'Connor Memorial sprint car event, which was nationally broadcast on ESPN Thunder, sprint car driver Rich Vogler sustained fatal head injuries due to a crash in turn 4. Vogler, who was leading the event and about to take the white flag signaling one lap to go, struck the turn 4 wall virtually head-on.