Four-time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti has admitted that his personality changed permanently following his shunt at Homestead in 2000 – and changed again in 2013. Franchitti, whose racing career abruptly ended in a huge IndyCar crash at Houston in 2013, told Motorsport.com in June that he only acknowledged the symptoms of his 2000 concussion much later. But the three-time Indy 500 winner has now told BBC presenter John Beattie that the shunts in both 2000 and 2013 also affected his personality. “My first big concussion, my personality I felt completely changed afterwards,” he said. “I brought it up with my brother [Marino] years later and said ‘I think this happened’, and...
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