Dallas, Oct 17: Sweden's Kenny Brack is recovering from a horrific crash at an Indy Race League event in Texas. Sweden's Kenny Brack, who suffered multiple fractures in a crash at the Texas 500 IRL race on Sunday, remains in a serious but stable condition after successful surgery, doctors said on Monday. Brack, who was injured on lap 188 of the 200-lap race, had surgery on his right thigh bone and both ankles in Dallas late on Sunday night, the Indy Racing League's director of medical services Dr Henry Bock said in a statement. "Brack remains in serious, but stable, condition and is awake and alert," Bock added. The 37-year-old driver fractured his breast bone, right femur, lower back and both ankles. Brack, the IRL champion in 1998 and Indy 500 winner in 1999, locked wheels with South African Tomas Scheckter, the son of ex-Formula One world champion Jody, on the back straight heading for turn three and his Team Rahal car was flipped into the air.


He crashed into the catch fencing, tearing the fence, before bouncing back on to the track where his car spun on its side before stopping at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.


Brack was taken to the infield care center at the track before being airlifted to the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas where trauma surgeon Dr Brian Estridge and orthopaedic surgeon Dr Charles Reinert performed surgery on Sunday.


Brazil's Gil de Ferran won the event, which was shortened by the accident with five laps to go, while Scott Dixon of New Zealand, who finished second, clinched the IRL series title.


De Ferran, 37, the CART champion in 2000 and 2001 who had previously announced that he was retiring from his Penske Racing team, was understandably subdued at Sunday's post-race news conference as he sent his "thoughts and prayers" to Brack.


Bureau Report