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It turns out that he DID die of a Heart Attack.
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – A race car driver suffered a heart attack before he was killed when his car slammed into a wall of tires during a weekend race.
An autopsy showed that Robert Kasik, 56, of Roscoe, Ill., was stricken before the accident Sunday at the end of a long straightaway at Road America, track officials said.
Witnesses said he went off course at a high rate of speed at Turn 12, called Canada Corner.
He drove off the track into a 275-foot-wide gravel pit designed to slow down cars that miss the turn, but his car instead plowed into a 5-foot tire barrier.
Kasik, who had been racing for at least 35 years, was competing in the GT-1 racing class with about 25 other racers.
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – A race car driver suffered a heart attack before he was killed when his car slammed into a wall of tires during a weekend race.
An autopsy showed that Robert Kasik, 56, of Roscoe, Ill., was stricken before the accident Sunday at the end of a long straightaway at Road America, track officials said.
Witnesses said he went off course at a high rate of speed at Turn 12, called Canada Corner.
He drove off the track into a 275-foot-wide gravel pit designed to slow down cars that miss the turn, but his car instead plowed into a 5-foot tire barrier.
Kasik, who had been racing for at least 35 years, was competing in the GT-1 racing class with about 25 other racers.
