Racing driver dies
NZPA-Reuter Rio de Janeiro A Brazilian racing driver, Nelson Balestieri, died yesterday during an unauthorised training session just hours before he was to compete in a motor race. Balestieri, aged 35, second in Sunday’s official practice session, arrived early at Rio’s Jacarepagua race track planning to
drive a few secret laps, with none of his opponents around.
But in his very first lap, shadowed by the morning sun, Balestieri did not see an iron bar in the middle of the track.
The iron bar hit his head and he died shortly afterward, the organisers said.
The race was called off because of the accident.
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Press, 30 September 1986, Page 32
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