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| YouTube video of Brett (quadriplegic SCI) doing what he loves most - competing in drag racing in his modified car. |
| Scroll down the page on the above website to find the following story - "At age 19, Norman was in the second year of a contract with a Midwestern tire company and was paid to live his dream, racing non-wing sprint cars. However, during summer 1970, Norman was in a racing accident that resulted in a C5/6 spinal-cord injury. Due to his training as a medic he was painfully aware that his life's dream had just ended.
After moving to San Diego, old dreams resurfaced and Norman built and ran a dune buggy in the desert, earned his pilots license flying sailplanes and started dreaming about racing again". |
| Tiger Racing is a professional and vintage motorsport team based in the Los Angeles, California. Carol Hollfelder had a paraplegic spinal injury in '87 and is now a member of the Tiger Racing Team driving the supercharged Ford Mustang in the Speed World Challenge in the GT class. We link through to the driver profile page for Carol.
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| “High-level motor racing is increasingly taking on-board our differences. In fact, it is one of the rare sports in which people with disabilities compete against non-disabled people. I’m really proud to be leading the first outfit in the world that lets top-notch drivers with disabilities take part in these events, alongside some of the best competitors on the planet." |
| Judith Geppert has cerebral palsy. She does not allow these two words, or indeed the condition itself, to prevent her from enjoying life to the fullest. She has written many articles for E-Bility about her adventures, this is just one of them. |
| Despite being blind for over 25 years, Miles has still lived his dreams, encouraging us to realise that "The only limits in our lives are those we accept ourselves."
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| The Italian Nicola Dutto is a professional motorcyclist who has won many important races in Italy and Europe, his life changed completely when in March 2010, an accident caused several fractures, including the sixth vertebra that left him without mobility in the legs .
But determined to continue in competitions only two years later, he was already participating again in what is his passion. |
| The objective of the British Motor Sports Association for the Disabled is to assist drivers with disabilities to compete in motorsport. |
| As long as you can show you are competent and safe behind the wheel, there is no reason why you can?t compete in motorsport - whatever your disability.
Motorsport?s most famous disabled driver is Alex Zanardi, who has been a winner in the FIA World Touring Car Championship for BMW while driving with prosthetic legs. The former Indycar champion lost his legs in a racing accident in 2001, but was competing again two years later. In the UK, former British Touring Car Champion Win Percy, who suffered paralysis long after his professional racing career ended, still regularly competes in historic racing.
There are many other enthusiastic club level competitors, helped by the d (BMSAD) British Motor Sports Association for the Disabled. This looks after the interests of, amongst others, amputees, insulin-controlled diabetics and those with paralysis, all of whom would have found it impossible to get a circuit racing competition licence just two decades ago.
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| There are few to no sports that are available for people with high level injuries, and people with limited mobility. Power Wheelchair Racing can be done by anyone with a power chair. This sport is good for your mind, body, and soul. Not only is it fun, but its filled with excitement and challenges. When a person gets out there and races head to head with someone, or try's to beat the record time, there wheelchair turns into wings and gives them a small taste of the freedom and independence they once had, or never had.
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| Welcome to Extreme Chairing.com, the largest adaptive action and adventure sports website in the world. Extreme Chairing uses funds to help people with high level injuries and limited mobility get involved in adventure sports. This site and organization is created for all people who enjoy watching or participating in action adventure sports. This organization is here to teach both able bodied and disabled people that life does not have to stop due to a severe injury, or living life with a disability.
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| WGP or Wheelchair Grand Prix, is defying limitations and public perception by assisting people with disabilities to experience all the thrills, spills and speed of motorsport to people previously unable to do so.
WGP was created in 2013, when founder Christopher Quinlan saw a lack of motorsport opportunities for people living with a disability. WGP is a racing series much like any other motorsport. With specially designed tracks all over Australia, licensing, a rule book, teams, sponsorship and an unprecedented following of fans.
As with any other motorsport, the goal is simple. First to reach the chequered flag is victorious. Australia will see 127 events in 2017, with Florida, USA hosting the world title events.
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| We manufacture, adapt and sell several types of motorsports vehicles for people with high level injuries, limited mobility and different types of disabilities. All AMS vehicles are built to fit the customer and have been modified to be operated by joystick or simple hand controls. A person who can operate a power wheelchair can operate an AMS vehicle! |
| The first car purpose-built for the disabled. |
| Karting is an exciting form of motorsport. Our custom made hand controlled karts give a disabled driver the ability to get out there and experience the thrill of performance driving. These high performance 125cc 2 stroke karts are capable of reaching 70 mph and close to 3 Gs in the corners. Karting may have serious side effects like uncontrollable grins and great memories. Let's roll !!
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| Handicap Vehicle Specialists, Inc. (HVS), founded in January 1990, has over 45 years experience in vehicle modifications, installation and service of adaptive driving equipment for the physically challenged. They have recently been purchased by Performance Mobility. We take pride in making sure that you get the correct adaptive equipment, with the proper installation and instructions for use. |
| PME was founded in 1989 by Bill Georgas, after he became a paraplegic. Very unhappy with the hand controls that were fitted to his vehicle, Bill soon realised there was a great need for quality automotive engineering services for the physically disabled. With his previous engineering background, including vast experience in the automotive industry, Bill set about creating something very special... |
| "Speed Demon Nick Hambrick loves hot rods. And he still has a passion for them, even after an accident in one caused his C5/6 injury. When he bought his 1955 Ford panel truck, Hambrick says it was a wreck. He had it restored and has driven it ever since. Sam Fletcher lost the use of his legs in a plane crash. Today he is 80 and has a garage full of Customized Classics. Drive on..." |
| "Although a motorcycle accident briefly sidelined Marcus Culvert, he's made a strong comeback as entrepreneur - with his own clothing line-, a musician and drag racer. Perhaps there is nothing in a healthy person's life that could prepare him or her for an adulthood wracked by intense pain and heart-wrenching disability. Religious faith can help. Loving parents, family, and friends can cushion such a blow. But when all is said and done, a young man who lives hard and fast until he loses the use of his legs is left to figure out how to greet each day and get the most out of it". |
| "It all started with Eyal Yerushalmi's dream to return to racing. Yerushalmi, 41, was a professional motorcycle racer until an accident cut his career short. He was injured and permanently disabled while participating in the 1994 Pharos rally in Egypt. In the July 2002 SPORTS N SPOKES, read Netta Rotman and Shirly Kashi's story of Yerushalmi's journey from Israel to Mexico, from a dream to a team competing in the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000". |
| McGovern has been into motorbikes ever since he and his friends began building lawnmower engines into their 1969 Stingray bicycles the rage of their day, with big banana seats and high handlebars. Since then, McGovern's interest in motorbikes has taken a natural progression from bicycles to dirt bikes, and from little Yamahas to the king of all, the Harley-Davidson. For DuPilka, it has been one of his many adaptive projects after sustaining a spinal-cord injury in a car accident in 1979. |
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