When a Journalist Saved a Driver's Life
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- The 1960 National 400 was the second NASCAR Grand National race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, a track that has been on the schedule for over 60 years. The National 400 was the 42nd round of the 1960 schedule, which accompanied the larger World 600 event at the track held just a few months prior. Still, nearly 30,000 fans flocked back to the speedway for the National 400 to watch the country’s 50 best stock car racers do battle at one of the fastest tracks in the United States. 7 caution’s flew for 34 laps, but there was not an accident as major as the one that occured on lap 90. Lenny Page lost control of his vehicle, slammed the guardrail, then was T-boned by another driver. After suffering many broken bones, a concussion, and notably, a large cut in his neck, medical crews had to act fast to save his life. But before medical staff could arrive on the scene, Lenny Page was lucky that an unlikely journalist hero was just feet from the accident.
When a Journalist Saved a Driver's Life
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I knew of the stories regarding Dr. Jerry Punch saving multiple drivers, but never knew Chris Economacki having a story of his own. This just adds to his legend in my opinion.
I think Chris should be in Every single Motorsports Hall of Fame in this country. He was cool long before cool was. He knew everybody. Speed sport News covered everything from little 1/4 mile dirt tracks to Daytona, LeMans and countless race tracks in between. Think it started in 1934. Chris is and always will be The Man when it came to Motorsports. He is surely missed. GOD BLESS him.
He was not the only journalist to save the life of a NASCAR driver, Dr Jerry Punch not only saved the life of Rusty Wallace, but he also saved the lives of 2 other drivers, Don Marmor, and Bill Dennis.
I never knew Chris Economaki saved driver's life what an interest story.
What a legend this guy was. And he comes from a famous family, the Lee family of Virginia. He's the great-great nephew of Robert E Lee and a very distant relative of Harper Lee. So he was destined to be a legend.
I grew up hearing Chris' commentary in Nascar and Indy racing, I can still hear is unmistakable voice. I never knew this about him. It makes his legend even larger.
He was a national treasure.
Wow. What an incredible story.
When I saw the title, I thought this was going to be a Don Marmor video (until I remembered there's one of those on the channel already)
Did not know Chris Economaki covered the Great Race, now I want to find footage of that
I hope people noticed he said 42nd round because that’s the year where they had like 60 something races
That would also help explain the FOUR THOUSAND! point lead. 🤣
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Top notch info. 👍👍🏁 The sound of Chris's voice always makes me think "race time"..
Chris was the man on ABC's Wide World of Sports, all the way up until the time he referred to A sledgehammer as A Mexican speed wrench. They fired him on the spot....
Ive never heard that story he was indeed a giant in bringing Nascar to the tv audience
If I'm not mistaken i believe hes the one that was interviewing kenny Rogers & the sheriff at the end of "Six Pack" . A favorite movie of mine when I was a kid. Still a favorite today.
Well I'll be darned I've never heard this !! And I was a long time subscriber to NSSN ...thank you for this video...anyone wanting to learn about Chris ...his autobiography " let em all run" is wonderful if you can find one.
Just want to say thanks for looking up real facts from the time period this happened instead of putting out "misinformation". Like happens too often these days.👍🇺🇸
Chris was a pro -
One of the best -
Dr. Jerry Punch: *nods respectfully*
You're one of my absolute favorite youturbers. Your content is amazing. Most of which I've read/watched about before, but the detail & background info you narrate is incredible. Thank you so much for all that you do & keep up the amazing work!
Big up JJ, I'm not a medical historian - but I'm not sure CPR was a Thing in 1960.
FWIW, Tony Stewart does a decent Chris Economacki impersonation.
CPR has been around for centuries, and although modern techniques were only just emerging in the 50s and 60s older methods would have been at least somewhat known to the general public. the older methods weren't as good as modern CPR but they worked often enough to be worth trying.
Another great video! My uncle worked in NASCAR for 30 years and most of this stuff I never knew
I remember Chris from the 1970s racing of the Bathurst 1000 Australia
I remember seeing this in one of Greg Fielden's books. Great job with the story and video bro!
Legend! The OG pit reporter, all who followed try to live up to his standards - most fail...
They may talk 💩 & fight on & off the track. But in the end they were still family. They would all do that for each other.
0:19 what's on the front end of those cars? Almost looks chain link fence gates.
I see where the article stated he was in a Chevy , not a Tbird
Oh cool. Economaki always just annoyed the shyt out of me so nice to find a reason not to just hate on him.
5:42 AH HAHAHA!!
as an Eagle scout who took a LOT!! of first aid / Trauma courses...... that is hilarious to me lol
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especially because a kid in my Trauma class would answer "tourniquet around the neck" for EVERYTHING
"what do you do for a headache?" .....this kid, with out fail, would say......"tourniquet around the neck"
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stubbed toe? tourniquet around the neck
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at first.... no one thought it was funny
but after the 10th time.... it actually did start to become funny..... at first 1 person laughed, which got 1 more laughing, which got 2 more laughing, ETC ETC ETC
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after about 80% of the class was laughing (even me.... who, at the beginning, said some passive aggressive stuff at the kid.... something like "stop trolling ya dip tip"
(and i actually said tip LOL... like the nerd i am....... as i was like 15 and it was during annual "boy scout camp", which was fun AF and i didnt want to get kicked out lol)
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finally the teacher was like "is that your answer for everything? HOW IS THAT GOING TO HELP A STUBBED TOE!???!?!??!?!??"
kid answered.... "well... he wont feel the hurt toe when he is dead"
WHOLE CLASS just bust out laughing.... to the point other classes 100 yards away were all looking at us
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even the teacher cracked a smile... before she went back into "full grown ass adult, in charge of a bunch of punk ass boy scouts" mode LOL
she wasn't mean.... just said something witty.
i forget exactly what was said.... but probably something like "ok, do you have any aches or pains? we can test it on you!"
which got another round of laughs.... and embarrassed the kid enough that he turned BRIGHT RED
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teach goes "does anyone know why his face is turning red?"
"increased heart rate!"
"higher blood pressure! capillary action!!" ETC ETC
one kid.... "embarrassment!!"
3rd round of yuck yucks lol
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god that was a fun class
(i wish my 11th and 12 grade teachers were that way..... in 2 years i went from a 3.8 GPA to 2.9 or 2.5..somewhere in that range..... A to A- average.... to a solid C+ or B-... i didnt care, just wanted to graduate.... and Cs get degrees baby LOL)
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anyway.... we learned a LOT... because the little jokes and being able to talk freely kept everyone interested
and the surprise test at the end was REALLY COOL!!!
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they simulated a tornado..... had "professional" "actors" lay on the ground with a fake wooden spike in his lung
one guy laid their with a "broken neck".... idk how he didnt cramp up
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we found that like 90% of us kids all focused on the worse/most graphically injured person (stake in the chest dude)
finally the instructor was like "hey!!! their are more people to save! TRIAGE!!!"
i was like "ya... this dude is going to die, we cant save him.....the hospital probably got hit, and the roads are blocked.... leave him alone to die in peace, 1 person stay and hold pressure"
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we then found like 7 more people "hiding" behind trees/fake rubble
i ended up holding a dudes head while he had seizures (fake ones, but still... damn good actor)..... gotta keep the head in a position to keep the tongue in the right spot
and IIRC... we thought he had a broken neck also.... so we didnt want the seizures to cause more injury
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TLDR
instead of doing an escape room..... do a simulated disaster
you are the "first responder", and now have to give "first aid"
Any video on the crash?
FYI. "National Speed SPORT News",, "sport" singular, stead plural.
1:57 what is up with the little "triangle" in front of the grill??
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is it to help hold the hood down??
The Bungee cord? Yup. Air could build up under the hood, and a bumpy track could trigger the hood mechanism. You'd have to be pretty unlucky to get the hood to flip up, but it did occasionally happen. A bungee cord to hold the hood down was an allowed mod, just in case.
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