Piloto Funny car lastimado
 

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AFTER TESTING ACCIDENT AT GAINESVILLE RACEWAY


Medlen suffered undetermined injuries when the 8,000 horsepower hybrid he was driving crashed heavily into the rightside guardwall. He was transported via ShandsCair helicopter to Shands at the University of Florida medical center.

The six-time NHRA tour winner, who participated in Sunday’s 38th annual ACDelco Gatornationals, was being treated in the surgical intensive care unit at Shands. He was listed in critical condition while being further evaluated by medical personnel.

Medical staff will provide a condition update at midday on Tuesday according to John Force Racing sources who emphasized that, at the present time, Medlen is not permitted to have visitors, phone calls, cards or flowers.

“Eric’s extended family would like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers,” said Kelly Antonelli, spokesperson for JFR. “At the same time, we would ask that you respect the family’s privacy at this time and allow the medical staff to do its work.”

A former crewman on boss and teammate John Force’s championship-winning Funny Cars, Medlen began his own driving career in 2004, winning a race his first year. He won three more times in 2005 and two times last season in a Funny Car prepared by his father, John Medlen.


http://www.nhra.com/content/news/19115.htm

:thunderbo

pobre , yo vi la carrera del domingo

:adicto2:

:rvm: q cagada

Ala puta madre
no se recupera y si fue bueno... :rvm:
alguien tiene el video del accidente???

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Eric Medlen, 33, who had emerged as one of the most popular young drivers in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, succumbed Friday afternoon to injuries suffered when his race car crashed into a guardwall during a Monday test session at Gainesville Raceway.
The talented Funny Car driver never regained consciousness. After being treated at the track, he was transported by ShandsCair helicopter to Shands at the University of Florida medical center where medical staff treated him for days for a severe closed head injury.
“Eric suffered from severe traumatic brain injury with diffuse axonal injury, or DAI,” said Dr. Joseph Layon, Professor of Anesthesiology, Surgery and Medicine and the Chief of Critical Care Medicine at UF. “Survival rates associated with DAI are low.
“On Tuesday, UF and Shands neurosurgery team performed a cranjectomy and removed the front portion of the skull to relieve pressure and attempt to improve blood flow to the brain,” Dr. Layon explained. “Despite receiving the most aggressive treatment, Eric continued to have uncontrollable intracranial pressure. His body lost the ability to manage it’s salt and water levels and he began displaying the complicating factors associated with DAI.
“That is when Eric’s family elected to honor Eric’s wishes and remove him from the artificial life support systems. Our hearts go out to Eric’s loved ones.”
“On behalf of the family, I want to thank the medical staff at Shands not just for giving Eric the very best care he could have received, but for the compassion it showed for Eric and all those close to him” said his father, John Medlen. “I also want to thank the thousands of people who offered their prayers and support to us during this very difficult time.”
As recently as Thursday night, more than 100 drivers and crew members representing every Indianapolis-based race team attended a prayer vigil organized by Kelly Bustos, team manager for Tuttle Motorsports, which fields Top Fuel dragsters for 2006 Rookie-of-the-Year J.R. Todd, one of Medlen’s closest friends in the sport.
At Louisville, Ky., where BP/Castrol had set up booth space for the Mid-America Trucking Show, fans and well-wishers filled up two giant posters with get well wishes Thursday. Moreover, more than 4,500 individual messages of support were left at a special e-mail address on the first day it was activated.
“Eric Medlen was the son I never had,” said team owner John Force. “He was the leader of my next generation of drivers. Robert Hight, my daughter Ashley and I were with the family throughout this very difficult time. This loss is a huge blow not only to the Medlen family, but to drag racing and to John Force Racing. I just want to thank everybody for their support, from Larry Smiley with Racers for Christ to the hospital staff to the whole drag racing community. Our prayers go out to the family.”
Little more than three years ago, Medlen took over driving responsibilities in the Funny Car in which Tony Pedregon won the 2003 championship. He had distinguished himself as one of the brightest young stars on the circuit, winning six times in his first three seasons and never finishing outside the Top 5 in driver points.
A graduate of Oakdale (Calif.) High School, where he was a high school rodeo champion in calf roping, Medlen trained under the watchful eye of two-time PRCA World Champion Jerold Camarillo and had contemplated a career in pro rodeo before his father called in 1996 to offer him a mechanic’s job at John Force Racing, Inc.
After spending one season on the team on which his father was crew chief, he moved over one pit stall in 1997 to work on the car driven by 14-time NHRA champion John Force. Serving first as the supercharger technician and later as a clutch specialist, he was a member of a team the crewed Force to 50 tour victories and six championships in seven seasons.
When Tony Pedregon left after the 2003 season to form his own team, Medlen was Force’s surprise pick to fill the seat, a move that re-united him with his father on the No. 2 team at JFR.
He was the sport’s top Funny Car rookie in 2004, winning at Brainerd, Minn. He won three races in 2005 and two in 2006 including the race contested closest to his hometown – the FRAM/Autolite Nationals at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.

Es mi imaginación o este cuate es idéntico a Jim Carrey???

Ojalá se recupere, que graaan talegazo ha de haber sido :yano:

Salu2

Ala puta ya le quitaron la perte del craneo :yano:
pobre cerote que huevos :rvm:
en serio ojala que se recupere....

No he visto el video...
Dragers.. Lo viste verdad????
no lo encuentro en youtube....

Bueno mucha, estaba viendo que ya murio... :llanto:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-LPb_v3yfsY

R.i.p

R.I.P. :rvm: Al menos murió domando 8000hps :adorar:

Salu2

R I P
pobre su familia

Q.e.p.d.

Q.E.P.D. se veia que amaba lo que hacia... igual que este en el cielo

pobre que mala onda

Drag Racing Fans Share in the Loss of Eric Medlen
It has been a very painful week at John Force Racing and throughout the entire motorsport world with the loss of Eric Medlen in a testing accident in Florida. Thousands of fans have found ways to express their feelings, their prayers and their words of comfort for the Medlen Family, John Force Racing and everyone that is connected to Eric. It is very hard to write this newsletter, but felt it was important to send all of you a heartfelt thank you for all your kind words of comfort during this difficult time.
Many fans have inquired about the funeral arrangements, flowers, donations and special places to express your loss. Below are a list of updates issued by the family concerning these issues for your information.
Thank you again and God Bless all our fans for helping us through this very difficult time!
John Force Racing
SERVICES ERIC MEDLEN TO BE CONDUCTED IN INDIANA
BROWNSBURG, Ind. – Funeral services for professional race car driver Eric Medlen, 33, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday (March 28) at Connection Pointe Christian Church, 1800 N. Green Street, Brownsburg. In addition to Wednesday’s services, there will be a viewing from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at the same church.
Medlen succumbed to complications from a closed head injury four days after his drag racing Funny Car crashed during routine testing at Gainesville (Fla.) Raceway.
A six-time winner on the NHRA drag racing tour, Medlen maintained his residence in Brownsburg near the site of the midwest shop facility that housed his race car and those of John Force Racing teammates John Force, Ashley Force and Robert Hight.
According to JFR sources, flowers can be arranged through Queen Anne’s Lace in Brownsburg. The phone number is 317-858-8170.
Medlen, one of the most popular young drivers in the NHRA POWERade Series, is survived by his father, John; his mother, Mary “Mimi” Medlen; his stepmother, Martha Medlen; and a sister, Eryn Gonzales.
FLOWERS & DONATIONS: Brownsburg-area Florists:
Queen Anne’s Lace
317-858-8170
Brownsburg Florist
317-852-4169
Gillespie Florist – 10th Street
317-273-1100
Donations:
McKnight Brain Institute
PO Box 100015
Gainesville, Florida 32610
DRAW – Drag Racing Association of Women
4 Hance Drive
Charleston, IL 61920
www.drawonline.org
E-MAIL ADDRESS AT WHICH FANS CAN REMEMBER ERIC MEDLEN
BROWNSBURG, Ind. – BP/Castrol, which established a special e-mail address for get well messages while Eric Medlen was fighting for his life, has set up a new address at which fans and friends can offer condolences to the family of the professional race car driver, who succumbed to his injuries last Friday.
Fans can leave their messages at [email protected]. Those messages will be assembled, printed and placed in a scrapbook that will be presented to the family.
Medlen, 33, suffered severe head injuries when his Funny Car crashed during routine testing last Monday at Gainesville (Fla.) Raceway. He underwent a successful cranjectomy procedure on Tuesday, but his other major organs began to fail shortly thereafter due to the trauma.
Services for the six-time NHRA POWERade tour winner will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Connection Pointe Christian Church, 1800 N. Green Street, in Brownsburg.