Tommy�s Notebook: Montreal, Watkins Glen, and Black Hat Wearing People.

By Tommy Brolsma
Okay, so I�ve been REALLY busy with stuff outside of racing. But it�s all good. The last few races have been excellent to unwind to. Remember my Notebook about Emotion? That was after Mazda Raceway. Well, Montreal topped that.

Random photo from Montreal. Courtesy Grand-Am.

Watkins Glen may not have, but it still provided fantastic Read More → ^ TOP

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Workman: 'Luckiest Unlucky Guy'

By J.J. O'Malley
Courtesy Grand-Am
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 24, 2008) - One moment, Jason Workman was looking to contend for the 2008 KONI Challenge Street Tuner championship, coming off a strong run at Daytona.

Suddenly, the 31-year-old Georgian found himself in grave condition and fighting for his life following a freak accident.

"I got sucker punched pretty good, man," Workman recalled of the Feb. 26 incident at Moroso Motorsports Park, where he was driver coaching. "They brought us into the pits next to the awning, because it was starting to get pretty bad out. From what I hear, I had just started to get out of the car when I got hit. I don't remember any of it."

A gust of wind dislodged a 55-gallon water barrel anchoring the awning and hurled it in the direction of the car. Tom McDermott, the driver of the Ariel Atom 2, was grazed by the barrel before it hit Workman in the head and upper body. McDermott spent a few hours in the emergency room before being released. Workman wasn't as lucky.

"I was crushed," Workman said. "I did have a head injury, but luckily for me, it wasn't a bad one. My brain's fine and there's no repercussions from that. The main thing was from the trauma from having so many broken bones. I broke 11 ribs, both shoulder blades, right clavicle, right humerus, L-1 vertebrae. With a head injury, they put me in a medically induced coma right off the bat."

Five months later, Workman is back working. He's currently in Washington, D.C., working on Read More → ^ TOP

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