After Kalitta, Crescentini Becomes Another Tragedy For the Racing World

After Kalitta, Crescentini Becomes Another Tragedy For the Racing World

After Kalitta, Crescentini Becomes Another Tragedy For the Racing World


This weekend weekend of bad motorsports keeps getting worse. Yesterday, Scott Kalitta. Today, Dino Crescentini, a ten-year veteran of vintage racing, died at Mosport International Raceway in Bowmanville, Ontario, when the Wolf Dallara Can-Am car he was driving — a car once owned by Canadian industrialist and Formula One team owner Walter Wolf and driven in the 1977 Can-Am Series by the legendary Canadian Gilles Villeneuve — apparently went sideways at very high speed.

Inspector Paul Hamilton of the Durham Regional Police tells us

“...[the driver] was heading northbound from corner six at Mosport. After this corner is a long straightaway and at some point his vehicle became airborne at an extremely high rate of speed and rolled end-over-end. The driver was transported to Bowmanville hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.”

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