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Man dies while at Petty driving school

Monday, Feb. 3, 2003 | 9:58 a.m.

An official with the Richard Petty Driving Experience confirmed that a man died Sunday while taking part in the driving school at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Brad Mark, general manager of the RPDE, said late Sunday that "an elderly gentleman died while driving a racecar" but could not dislose any other details. The incident occurred at about 2:30 p.m. on the 1.5-mile superspeedway.

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