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February 13, 2012

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Comments by user: wildman

Thanks for an exceptional piece of writing. I was 12 when Savage had his crash. I'd followed his career since he'd been a teammate of my favorite driver, Dan Gurney, in the Trans-Am series, and was driving a Gurney-built Eagle in the '73 500. I was crushed when I heard he'd died several weeks after the crash. That hurt returned a few years ago when I learned from Steve Olvey's book, "Rapid Response," that Savage died due to a medical error, not as a direct result of his injuries. So needless and tragic.

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