{"id":1907,"date":"2025-08-11T21:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:32:38","slug":"driver-dies-after-medical-emergency-during-race-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/driver-dies-after-medical-emergency-during-race-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies after medical emergency during race in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robbie Brewer, a short-track racecar driver<\/a>, died over the weekend after suffering a medical emergency while competing in a race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brewer\u2019s vehicle smashed head-on into a wall at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,<\/a> on Saturday night. He was competing in the 20-lap Sportsman Series race, which occurs every weekend across four divisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The car came to a halt near the finish line, and the 53-year-old Brewer was taken out of it after track workers took the roof off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Brewer was rushed to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist hospital, where he eventually died, per the Winston-Salem Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We are saddened by the passing of Robbie Brewer after he was transported to an area medical facility following an on-track medical incident,” track officials said in a statement on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Robbie was a talented and passionate race, and highly respected competitior among his peers. Our thoughts and prayers are with Robbie\u2019s family and friends at this time.”<\/p>\n

Details of Brewer\u2019s medical emergency were not disclosed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brad Lewis, a fellow driver at Bowman Gray, said Brewer “was like a big brother to me even though we were not that far apart in age.” Lewis\u2019 race shop was near where Brewer lived.<\/p>\n

“He was a wheelman thorugh and through,” Lewis added. “I\u2019m not only going to honor him the rest of the season, but for as long as we race out there. He\u2019ll be missed.”<\/p>\n

Brewer has been racing at the track, which served as a preseason NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series exhibition event back in February, since 1990.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brewer made almost 260 Sportsman Division starts, and he won the championship in 2011, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Robbie Brewer, a short-track racecar driver, died over the weekend after suffering a medical emergency while competing in a race.\u00a0 Brewer\u2019s vehicle smashed head-on into a wall at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Saturday night. He was competing in the 20-lap Sportsman Series race, which occurs every weekend across four divisions.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}