Nemechek On Life Support

If NASCAR truck series driver John Nemechek survives, it will be months before physicians know the extent of his inoperable head injuries and the final outcome of his condition, doctors said.

Nemechek was on life support after suffering a “severe brain hemorrhage” in a crash at the Florida Dodge Dealers 400 in Homestead on Sunday.

The brain injury is inoperable, said Dr. Phillip Villanueva, director of the neurotrauma at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Nemechek was injured when his truck hit the wall in turn one on the 144th lap at the 1.57-mile track.

Former Ferrari driver Michele Alboreto said in court in Imola, Italy, that a mechanical failure caused Ayrton Senna’s fatal crash during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

Alboreto, the second driver to testify in the trial of six top Formula One officials charged with manslaughter in the death of the three-time world champion, made his statement after studying the footage of the accident in court.

The prosecution in the trial, which opened last month, contends that a badly modified steering column cracked in Senna’s Williams-Renault race car, causing the crash.

Senna died of massive head injuries after failing to make the Tamburello corner and crashed into a concrete wall.