from a Q&A on NASCAR.com, Marty Smith answers: Quite honestly, it doesn’t look as though Nadeau will ever return to the Cup Series ranks. I spoke with him Wednesday and he said the doctors continue to urge him not to return to racing. “Right now they can’t sign me off to go back racing, but I’m not giving up on it,” Nadeau said. “If something comes up that attracts me that I could do something else, I’ll do it. But right now I’m just trying to stay fit. I’d love to find something to do, just don’t know what to do. My whole life has been racing and that was taken away from.” Nadeau asked me [Smith] to send a message to his fans. “I want to tell my fans, it’s an unfortunate accident, and it’s hard to come back from a coma right into racing. It’s a more serious injury than I thought. I figured it’d heal the first year. But it’s more than a year process. It’s a long term injury.”(NASCAR.com, Marty Smith)(6-15-2005)
