Category: Sport Author : Kim LaCapria Posted: June 15, 2009
Tags : Carlos Pardo, nascar, nascar accident, nascar crash, NASCAR Mexico
NASCAR Mexico Series champion Carlos Pardo was killed Sunday in a race in Mexico.
Pardo, 33, was in the lead in the 97th lap of a race on Autódromo Miguel E. Abed in Amozoc, Puebla. Competitor Jorge Goeters nudged his car from behind, pushing it into a wall at 120 miles per hour.
Pardo’s car disintegrated on impact. He was airlifted to a hospital, where he died 45 minutes later. Survivors include a wife, Ana, and an infant child. Pardo’s brother Ruben is also a NASCAR competitor.
In a statement, a NASCAR Mexico representative Chad Little said:
“Carlos Pardo was a tremendous competitor and person. On behalf of everybody in the NASCAR family, our thoughts and prayers go out to Carlos’ family and friends.”
Pardo was posthumously named the winner of Sunday’s tragic competition.
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Jun 16, 2009
jorge goeter nudged him on purpose knowing he was going to cause Pardos to wipe out and SENT him to his DEATH……charges should be brought against him or he should be thrown out of racing altogether.
Jul 2, 2009
Well: seeing the video and having big suspicious thinking about the real motivation of the accident…mmmmhhhh… May be the other comment has some reasons to be disgusted. Seeing the video…touching that way Pardo's car seems so perfectly conceived to making him hitting exactly where he could be killed, as it had happened.
Good luck Carlos…