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Alex Zanardi

Profession : Driver

Birth : October 23, 1966

Daytona has some of the greatest fans in the world and many remember me from some of the things I've done in this wonderful country.

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Losing my legs was one of the greatest opportunities of my life.

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Obviously, my wife is very important, very important because in all this time she never watched me with that look that means 'I am sorry,' or that means 'poor you.'

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I have always had a very smooth driving style. But when I started competing as a disabled driver, I had to take that even more to the extreme.

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The U.S. is where I was given the greatest opportunity to turn my life from a very nice one to an exceptional one.

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I am very proud to become a BMW Brand Ambassador. BMW is like a second family, and over the past years we not only enjoyed great times together at the track, but we have also become close friends.

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It's not much different to Formula One where they are improving the cars constantly. The difference is every hand biker needs a different bike depending on their residual ability.

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We all have expectations but sometimes the greatest thing is to be surprised with what happens and to find out that it is quite different from the way you imagined it.

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Whether it is a small thing or big one, step-by-step you can make things happen.

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As a race car driver, I don't think I will drive forever, because it is not so much a question of being competitive, but of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

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The first time the doctors put on my prosthetic legs they made me much taller than I'd ever been. I then remember the doctor saying 'we need to shorten this man' and we all were in hysterics.

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It warms my heart, no doubt, to inspire people. In reality, people see in others what they want to see in themselves.

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My parents taught me that I could always improve on things.

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When you're young, not only do you not have any money, you don't think something can happen to you. I raced some races without insurance in the early days of my career. I didn't think about it at all.

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I am out to prove that there are no obstacles for the disabled.

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I haven't done any of the things I have done to inspire others, but I am sure that if I am watching my story from the outside I would be joining the club saying, 'Wow, that guy really gets you going.'

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Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

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After I finished racing in the United States, I received a lot of criticism for being dangerous, a little bit stupid, insane, you name it.

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You only recognize how good something is if you've been through the bad.

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Vancouver has always been a place of mixed results for me. I've always been fast there, but I've never been able to collect the kind of result I could have.

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