DONNY LIA OK AFTER HARD CRASH AT STAFFORD
NASCAR
Whelen Modified Tour driver Donny Lia was involved in a scary crash on
Friday night at Stafford Motor Speedway (CT) while practicing for the
night’s NASCAR Weekly Racing Series Modified race. Lia was practicing when
he made contact with another car as it was leaving the pits. His #47
Wisk/Clorox SK Mod briefly became airborne before hitting the turn one wall
flush with the driver’s side door. Lia was taken to the hospital, where he
was treated and released.
“I'm
totally fine,” said Lia. “I just bruised my right knee a little from
hitting the steering column. It's gotten much better in the last two days
and it looks like it'll be fine in a day or so. All of the safety equipment
worked great. If not for hitting my knee, I wouldn’t be sore at all.
“It
did a lot of damage to the car. It hit at a bad angle because there is the
ramp going into the pits, so the wall opens up there. The crew took the car
apart Friday night and it was on the jig at Chassis Dynamics on Saturday,
where they determined it was unfixable. So Saturday and Sunday was spent
making some changes to a new chassis that was done and sitting there. Rob
Chowansky painted the body for the new car Sunday. Today the car is at the
powder-coater and it should be ready for assembly tonight. We could save
nothing but wiring, gauges, a few nerf-bars on right side and the roof from
the old car.”
Lia
and the #47 team will be back at Stafford on Friday.
For
more information on Donny and the team, please contact Matthew Dillner at
(704) 231-7613 and be sure to visit DonnyLia.com.
Source: Matthew
Dillner/Donny Lia PR
Posted: May 13, 2005
