
Wickens to drive feature race at home seven years after crash left him paralyzed
Robert Wickens’s promising racing career seemed like it was cut tragically short after a 2018 crash left him paralyzed from the chest down.
But almost seven years later, Wickens is racing in the headline event of the Chevrolet Grand Prix, competing at the highest levels of his sport in Canada for the first time since that accident.
The event is at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ont., a course Wickens grew up around and where his dream of becoming a professional race car driver first began to take shape.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve raced a home race as the headline class,” Wickens said in a video call Thursday. “The Toronto Indy in 2018 would have been the last time, and thankfully, we finished on the podium there.”