News Details

Zanardi returns to compete in Ironman World Championship

For the second straight year, former Indy car champion Alex Zanardi is competing in the iconic Ironman World Championship presented by GoPro at Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The 1997 and '98 CART champ while driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, Zanardi lost both legs in a crash at Lausitzring in Germany in 2001, but that hasn't slowed the 48-year-old Italian fan favorite. Zanardi won a paracycling gold medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London and finished 272nd overall in the 2014 Ironman using a handbike for the cycling portion and an Olympic wheelchair for the running section. The 2015 Ironman, set for Oct. 10, consists of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile marathon run. More than...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

The Unsuspecting Yet Unsurprising Champion: Santi...

When the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires season began in...

How the West Was Won: Spencer Pigot's Indy Lights...

If you have even the slightest of interests in the future of the Verizon...

INDYCAR: Indy Lights champ Pigot looking through...

Championships have endowed Spencer Pigot’s steady progression through...
-8y from Racer.com

INDYCAR: Texas announces 2016 race date

Texas Motor Speedway, which has hosted the IndyCar Series every year...
-8y from Racer.com

Comments

comments powered by Disqus

2015 IndyCarToday.com
IndyCarToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with IndyCar.