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  • ** FILE ** This Thursday Nov. 23, 2006, file photo shows two-time CART champion Alex Zanardi, who lost both of his legs in a crash over five years ago, inside the modified cockpit of his BMW-Sauber C24-B, as he becomes the first double amputee to test drive a Formula One car in the Cheste racetrack near Valencia, Spain. (AP Photo/Fernando Bustamante, File)

    Ex-Formula One driver Alex Zanardi takes on new race

    Alex Zanardi just can't stop racing. The former Formula One driver is vying for a Paralympic medal Wednesday in paracycling — a hand cycle powered by the arms — at the Brands Hatch race track, where he once raced cars. It's really incredible, when you realize the 45-year-old almost died in a horrific accident in a 2001 CART race in Germany.

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