Racing driver killed
nzpa. .- ; i Hockenheim, West Germany An ..Austrian driver, Marcus Hoettinger, ; was killed yesterday-in the Jim Clark • Memorial •'Formula Two race won by Teo Fabi, of Italy. . :■>- •■ ■ ; The -racer died a few minutes after ■' arriving ; at a‘ Heidelberg : hospital by helicoptef for. treatment ofinternal inquries, suffered? to a two-car ismash - on. ‘ the!
fourth lap, officials said. Whem. Hoettinger’s Mau-rer-BMW slummed , into. a spinning-out racer driven'by Derek; Warwick, of Britain, a tyre' flew off nd caught the Austrian" in the head and chest, race, officials said. ?- He/climbed out of' the car andthen, collapsed; The Austriari ‘ was., taken to Heidelberg -University Clinic but died a few minutes after. arrival, officals said. ;
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