Ray Paprota III was supposedly involved in an accident at Daytona where a track worker lost his life during a caution ( http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=36839 ). Ray was a paraplegic and drove cars with controls located near the steering wheel.
My question is were these normal races? Did he compete with drivers that were not paraplegic?
Also how long has or did he compete and was he competitive?
What kind of cars did they race and what speeds were reached? Any information would be appreciated.
2007-11-15 08:17:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Auto Racing ➔ NASCAR
The series did cease to exist in 2005...
2007-11-15 08:59:53 · update #1
The reason I am asking is because I know a paraplegic and his condition never got in the way of the things he wanted to accomplish. Truely an amazing person and this story reminds me of this guy I know.
2007-11-15 09:30:44 · update #2
The IPower Dash Series used to be called the Goody's Dash Series when Nascar sanctioned the series. For reasons unknown to me Nascar stopped sanctioning the series. This is also where Toyota made its first steps into stock car racing. The cars are smaller versions of Cup cars. They used to be part of Speedweeks in Daytona normally reaching speeds about 160 to 170 mph. Haven't heard much about the series in the last few years. For all I know the series no longer exists.
2007-11-15 08:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by Jay 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What Jay said, plus.....
Yes, the driver you are asking about did in fact use hand controls. He raced against drivers with out hand controls. The wreck you mention was during speedweeks at Daytona, and was being televised live on ESPN when it happened, I was watching at the time.
If I recall right, he was in the Goody's Dash series in hope of showing he could compete safley and move up to BGN/Cup. The fact he was paraplegic had nothing to do with the wreck that killed the track worker. The track was still green when the track worker went to the stopped car on the track.
2007-11-15 17:10:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have meet him and have heard his inspirational speach.His cars did have hand controlls and the cars were built by the Allison(Donnies sons) brothers.
As for the IPower series it folded about 2 or 3 years ago.
2007-11-15 22:32:36 · answer #3 · answered by blakree 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋