WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A veteran stock-car driver at a North Carolina quick monitor died over the weekend after struggling a medical emergency whereas competing in a race, officers stated.
Robbie Brewer’s automotive struck head-on a wall on the quarter-mile (0.40-kilometer) monitor at Bowman Grey Stadium in Winston-Salem and got here to a cease close to the start-finish line.
Monitor employees peeled away the roof to take away the 53-year-old Brewer, and an ambulance took him to Atrium Well being Wake Forest Baptist hospital, after which he died, the Winston-Salem Journal reported.
“We’re saddened by the passing of Robbie Brewer after he was transported to an space medical facility following an on-track medical incident,” monitor officers stated Sunday in an announcement. “Robbie was a gifted and passionate racer, and extremely revered competitor amongst his friends. Our ideas and prayers are with Robbie’s household and associates right now.”
Particulars of the medical emergency weren’t launched.
Brewer was competing in a 20-lap Sportsman Division race at Bowman Grey, the place 1000’s of racing followers end up weekly on Saturday nights within the spring and summer time for races throughout 4 divisions. Bowman Grey additionally was the locale for this 12 months’s preseason NASCAR Cup Sequence exhibition occasion in early February.
Brewer’s first profession begin on the oval got here in 1990, and he made almost 260 begins within the Sportsman Division, successful the factors championship in 2011, the newspaper reported.
Fellow Bowman Grey driver Brad Lewis, whose race store is close to the place Brewer lived, stated Brewer “was like a giant brother to me regardless that we weren’t that far aside in age.”
“He was a wheelman by and thru,” Lewis stated. “I’m not solely going to honor him the remainder of the season however for so long as we race on the market. He’ll be missed.”
