By JENNA FRYER, AP Auto Racing Writer
Bobby Unser, a beloved three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and part of the only pair of brothers to win The Greatest Spectacle in Racing has died. He was 87.
He died Sunday at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, of natural causes, Indianapolis Motor Speedway said Monday.
Unser was one of the greatest racers in the history at the speedway, capturing the race in 1968, 1975 and 1981. He is part of the Mount Rushmore of Indy, said Dario Franchitti, another three-time Indy 500 winner.
Younger brother Al Unser is one of only three drivers to win the Indy 500 four times â 1970, 1971, 1978 and 1987. The Unser family tradition stretched to Al Unser s son, Al Unser Jr., who won the Indy 500 in 1992 and 1994.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
A 39-year-old Durango woman died after apparently being attacked by a black bear. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers say the attack happened sometime Friday night.
DURANGO, Colo. (AP) â Human remains were found in two of the three black bears euthanized after they were suspected of killing a Colorado woman in an apparent attack, state wildlife officials said.
The 39-year-old woman was found dead north of Durango in southwestern Colorado on Friday, her body mauled, and authorities suspected a rare bear attack because of the bear scat and hair found at the scene. A dog team found a 10-year-old female black bear and two yearling cubs nearby, and they were killed because they were suspected of attacking her and it was believed they would likely attack someone else.