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Alex Zanardi, auto racing champion-turned-Paralympian, dies at 59 after life-altering accidents
ROME(AP) — Alex Zanardi, the Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist whose career was marked by two life-altering accidents, has died. He was 59.
Zanardi’s family announced his death on Saturday, saying that he passed away on Friday night.
“Alex died peacefully, surrounded by the affection of those closest to him,” the family said in a statement without providing a cause of death.
In 2020, Zanardi was seriously injured in a handbike accident after crashing into an oncoming truck during a relay event in Tuscany. Zanardi suffered serious facial and cranial trauma in the crash and was put in a medically induced coma.
Racing legend Alex Zanardi dies aged 59
Zanardi passed "suddenly" but "peacefully" on Thursday, May 1, according to a statement released by his family.
One of the defining single-seater drivers of the 1990s, Zanardi raced for two seasons in Formula 1 with Team Lotus before – as the outfit ceased to exist – switching his attention to the American open-wheel scene.
He was a near-instant sensation in CART/Indy Car, fighting for the championship in his first season in 1996 – which also included one of the most famous overtakes in motor racing history, the last-lap move on Bryan Herta for the win through Laguna Seca's Corkscrew.
Back-to-back titles followed the next two seasons, the 1998 crown particularly dominant and enabling a return to F1 with the Williams team – but Williams, running the rebadged Supertec (Renault) engine, struggled in his return year and Zanardi was well adrift of team-mate Ralf Schumacher.
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