Bryan Clauson was airlifted to a hospital in Wichita, Kansas after a violent accident in Saturday night's 39th annual Belleville Nationals midget race. Starting ninth, Clauson had just taken the lead from Chad Boat and was starting to pull away when he encountered lapped traffic on the lightning-quick half-mile dirt track. The 27-year-old resident of Noblesville got stuffed into the fence by a lapped car and went into a series of snap rolls before landing on his side, at which point he was struck in the cockpit by an oncoming car at a high rate of speed. It was reminiscent of the crash that badly injured Jan Opperman in 1976 at the Hoosier Hundred. It took rescue workers approximately 20...
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