During a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_Auto_Racing_Teams" id="mwAW0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Championship Auto Racing Teams">CART</a> race at the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroSpeedway_Lausitz" id="mwAW4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="EuroSpeedway Lausitz">Lausitzring</a> in Germany, former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One" id="mwAW8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Formula One">Formula One</a> driver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Zanardi" id="mwAXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alex Zanardi">Alex Zanardi</a> suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs.<sup about="#mwt59" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_15#cite_note-9" id="mwAXE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXI">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt56" class="citation web cs1" id="mwCDM"><a class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-16-sp-46362-story.html" id="mwCDQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Zanardi Loses His Legs in Crash"</a>. <i id="mwCDU">Los Angeles Times</i>. 2001-09-16<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCDY">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCDc">2021-09-15</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt56" class="Z3988" id="mwCDg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Zanardi+Loses+His+Legs+in+Crash&amp;rft.date=2001-09-16&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Farchives%2Fla-xpm-2001-sep-16-sp-46362-story.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeptember+15"></span></span>