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Charlie Glotzbach talks about Bristol wreck:

March 26, 2010 at 12:00 AM

  • Thursaday, March 25 on SIRIUS NASCAR Radio, host Claire B. Lang spoke with Charlie Glotzbach, who was injured in a wreck with Larry Pearson in the Showdown charity race at Bristol Motor Speedway last weekend. Glotzbach was released from the hospital on Wednesday.
    Charlie Glotzbach: ‘Thats the hardest hit that Ive ever taken, and that was the first ride to the hospital from a race. I mean, all the walls Ive hit, and wrecked, and I never got hurt. That was the first time I ever got hurt. So it had to be a hard, hard hit.’
    Glotzbach: ‘I didnt know, I didnt think he (Pearson) would come down that quick. I thought that hed probably have his foot on the brake, but somebody told me that they seen when he hit the wall, it knocked him out. ‘¦ Im really sorry it happened, but I dont think there was anything I could do about it.’
    Glotzbach: ‘I dont really think its too risky (for older drivers to race), because it happens to the young drivers. If you notice, they get hurt, and naturally an older driver is going to get hurt probably a little easier on account of his bones are, uh, softer. But, I dont think its got anything to do with age.’
    Glotzbach: ‘You look at the reaction time of the younger drivers, they hit things, too. They hit other cars so reaction time has nothing to do with it, I dont think’
    Glotzbach: ‘Them cars are safe. I mean, theyre basically a Busch or Nationwide car with a fiberglass body on ‘˜em. I mean, they got bars running everywhere and they got good seats in them and I dont think the car had anything to do with it ‘˜cause it was a good race car, the one I had.’
    Glotzbach: ‘As far as me, how I feel, Im sore. My sternums broke. I got some bruised ribs, and the lower back, uh, theres a bone cracked down there a little bit or something. They said there were some old wounds down there, too. But, like I said, I never went to hospital for nothin.’
    Glotzbach: ‘Kyle Petty came in to see me (in the hospital), and he said if youre going to wreck he said this is a good place to wreck ‘˜cause this is a great hospital. And I believe everything he says. He said, ‘˜Ive been at all of them.’(SIRIUS NASCAR Radio)(3-26-2010)