IRL NOTEBOOK: ROOKIE MANNING RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL.Byline: A.J. Perez Staff Writer FONTANA - A day after the rear of his car disintegrated in a qualifying mishap, Darren Manning was released from Loma Linda Medical University Medical Center. The British-born rookie suffered a slight concussion and a severe back contusion CONTUSION, med. jurisp. An injury or lesion, arising from the shock of a body with a large surface, which presents no loss of substance, and no apparent wound. If the skin be divided, the injury takes the name of a contused wound. Vide 1 Ch. Pr, 38; 4 Carr. & P. 381, 487, 558, 565; 6 Carr. after his Chip Ganassi Racing Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates is an automotive racing organization with teams competing in NASCAR, IRL, and Grand-Am racing. It is owned by businessmen Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates. The team is based in Concord, North Carolina, which is a suburb of Charlotte. G Force/Toyota spun exiting Turn 2 Saturday. The tail of Manning's car hit the SAFER barrier at the start of the back straight as seen in a replay shown for the first time to reporters on Sunday. Manning, who never lost consciousness, was taken to the hospital, where he remained overnight. Head, neck and chest X-rays were negative, according to IRL 1. (jargon, chat) IRL - In real life. Generally synonymous with f2f. 2. (language, robotics) IRL - Industrial Robot Language. medical director Dr. Henry Bock. ``I'm not sure what happened,'' Manning said in a statement released by the IRL. ``Maybe a gust of wind, but I was very loose ... and the rest is a bit fuzzy.'' Manning, 29, left the hospital around 2 p.m. before flying back to Indianapolis, where he will be under the care of Dr. Terry Trammell, according to team spokesman Pat Caporali. Trammell was the orthopedic surgeon who oversaw procedures to stabilize Kenny Brack's spine after his near-fatal accident at the Texas Motor Speedway Texas Motor Speedway is a superspeedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas -- the portion located in Denton County, Texas. The track layout is very similar to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor last October. Team owner Chip Ganassi said after Sunday's race that it was too early to start talking about the need for a replacement driver for the IndyCar finale in Texas on Oct. 17. Nobody filled Manning's car Sunday. --Brack on track: Although he showed no obvious signs of the wreck that nearly killed him, Brack said Sunday that his racing future is still cloudy. ``I need to feel that I'm ready for this type of racing,'' said Brack, who returned to auto racing at a sports car race in his native Sweden on Sept. 20. ``Then after that I will see what opportunities there are. I have to do things in the right order.'' Brack's injuries included a fractured right femur, a fractured sternum sternum: see rib. , a fractured lumbar vertebra vertebra /ver·te·bra/ (ver´te-brah) pl. ver´tebrae [L.] any of the 33 bones of the vertebral (spinal) column, comprising 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, and 4 coccygeal vertebrae . and fractures to both ankles. ``I'm still doing some (rehab), but I'm back to normal,'' Brack said. Brack, 38, has sat this season while his replacement driver on Rahal Letterman Racing Rahal Letterman Racing (RLR) is an auto racing team that currently races in the Indy Racing League. It is co-owned by 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal and television talk show host and comedian David Letterman and is based in Hilliard, Ohio. , Buddy Rice, won the Indy 500 and at Michigan International Speedway Michigan International Speedway is a two-mile (3.22 km), moderate-banked, D shaped superspeedway located off U.S. Highway 12 on more than 1,400 acres [1] near Brooklyn, in the scenic Irish Hills area of southeastern Michigan. . Brack said he hasn't initiated discussions with the team on coming back for 2005, although he will test alongside driver Danica Patrick sometime in the coming weeks to help determine who will run alongside Rice. --Herta out of sync: On a day when teammate Tony Kanaan clinched the IRL title, Valencia native and Hart High of Newhall graduate Bryan Herta brought up the rear of Andretti Green Racing Andretti Green Racing is an auto racing team that competes in the IRL IndyCar Series and the American Le Mans Series. Early years in CART Founded in 1993 by Barry Green and Gerry Forsythe as Forsythe Green Racing thanks to any early gearbox problem. Herta pitted on Lap 11 after he couldn't get his car to get into either fifth or sixth gear. When he went back out on the course after his crew replaced the gears, he was 12 laps back of the leader. A.J. Perez, (562) 499-1338 aj.perez(at)presstelegram.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Adrian Fernandez celebrates Sunday afternoon after winning the Toyota Indy 400 at California Speedway. Will Lester/Associated Press |
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