Veteran Stock-car Driver Robbie Brewer Dies After Medical Emergency During North Carolina Race

A seasoned stock-car driver astatine a North Carolina short way died complete nan play aft suffering a aesculapian emergency while competing successful a race, officials said.

Robbie Brewer’s car struck head-on a wall connected nan quarter-mile way astatine Bowman Gray Stadium successful Winston-Salem and came to a extremity adjacent nan start-finish line. Track workers peeled distant nan tile to region nan 53-year-old, and an ambulance took him to a section hospital, aft which he died, the Winston-Salem Journal reported.

“We are saddened by nan passing of Robbie Brewer aft he was transported to an area aesculapian installation pursuing an on-track aesculapian incident,” way officials said connected Sunday successful a statement. “Robbie was a talented and passionate racer, and highly respected competitor among his peers. Our thoughts and prayers are pinch Robbie’s family and friends astatine this time.”

Details of nan aesculapian emergency weren’t released.

Brewer was competing successful a 20-lap Sportsman Series title astatine Bowman Gray, wherever thousands of racing fans move retired play connected Saturday nights successful nan outpouring and summertime for races crossed 4 divisions. Bowman Gray besides was nan venue for this year’s preseason Nascar Cup Series accumulation arena successful early February.

Brewer’s first profession commencement astatine nan oval came successful 1990, and he made astir 260 starts successful nan Sportsman Division, winning nan points title successful 2011.

Fellow Bowman Gray driver Brad Lewis, whose title shop is adjacent wherever Brewer lived, said Brewer “was for illustration a large relative to maine moreover though we were not that acold isolated successful age.”

“He was a wheelman done and through,” Lewis said. “I’m not only going to grant him nan remainder of nan play but for arsenic agelong arsenic we title retired there. He’ll beryllium missed.”