jeremy s girlfriend, robin, is 3,000 feet up the mountain where it s cold and it s been drizzling on and off for the past hour. we could see most of the track. we got a pretty good spot. in the thin air at 12,000 feet, the time trial is going well. seven minutes in and three to go, jeremy and his co-driver are on pace to finish in third place. jeremy down shifts around a hair pin curve and then accelerates. this section of the course is called devil s playground. it s about to live up to its ominous name. jeremy drives 80 miles an hour into the next turn. he steers to the left but his wheels aren t grabbing. they never will. the front end basically slips out. it s one of the most frightening things i ve experienced in my
past hour. we could see most of the track. we got a pretty good spot. in the thin air at 12,000 feet, the time trial is going well. seven minutes in and three to go, jeremy and his co-driver are on pace to finish in third place. jeremy down shifts around a hair pin curve and then accelerates. this section of the course is called devil s playground. it s about to live up to its ominous name. jeremy drives 80 miles an hour into the next turn. he steers to the left but his wheels aren t grabbing. they never will. the front end basically slips out. it s one of the most frightening things i ve experienced in my life. i saw, we ve got a lot of mountain to go down. this is going to be bad. i m thinking oh, my god, this is it. he s gone. there s not going to be anything
of destruction. it s an unmistakable sound. if you ve ever been in a car accident, you know the sound. after what seems like an eternity, the little that s left of jeremy s car stops. not only is his heart still beating, he s able to walk away. i did just unstrap myself and pull myself out of the wreckage. [ applause ] i had to run probably a quarter of a mile down the side of the mountain and back to where i could physically see him. i saw he was sitting on a rock and that he was okay. jeremy s concern shifts to yuri, the co-driver whose helmet splits in half from the force of the crash. the impact causes yuri to lose consciousness but only for seconds. i was concerned that the car
it seems leaving the competition in the dust. in the newsroom with this wonderful story. he s been hit by not one but two i.e.d.s. first in iraq in 2007 shrapnel peppering the left side of his body. and then three years ago in afghanistan he step on an i.e.d. and now has a prosthetic left leg but that hasn t stopped him from become a professional motor sports race car driver. when i m out there, i m not thinking about my injury. i m be thinking about my prosthesis, my right leg, right arm. the task at hand is to get this car on the track as quickly and safely as possible. he is the co-driver of the number 27 freedom auto sport mazda. his driving is catching the attention of the team and together they retro fitted the car to fit his prosthetic leg. a little pin that attaches the
brakes free at first impact. i really thought i was going to die. you know, that was it. i was praying. i didn t know what else to do. devil s playground is exacting vengeance, in a symphony of destruction. it s an unmistakable sound. if you ve ever been in a car accident, then you know the sound. after what seemed like an eternity, the little that s left of jeremy s car stops. not only is his heart still beating, he s able to walk away. i unstrapped myself and pulled myself out of the wreckage. my god, man! i had to run probably a quarter of a mile to get down the side of the mountain, and then back to where i could actually physically see him. and i saw he was sitting on a rock and that he was okay. jeremy s concern shifts to uri, his co-driver, whose helmet