according to the Winston-Salem Journal.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nTrack crew members rip the roof off of Robbie Brewer\u2019s car to remove him after a medical emergency in the first 20-lap Sportsman Series race at Bowman Gray Stadium, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Winston-Salem, N.C. AP<\/p>\n
The car came to a stop near the start-finish line, as the chief flagman, Randy Smith, was the first out to the crash. The track\u2019s crew had to peel the roof off the car to extract Brewer, the report stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Race officials did not say what the medical emergency had been.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Courtney Marquette, Brewer\u2019s daughter, mourned the loss of her father in a post on social media, confirming his death.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Robbie Brewer\u2019s car skids down the front stretch after a wreck on the restart on lap 16 of the first 20-lap Sportsman Series race at Bowman Gray Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Winston-Salem, N.C. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t just lose my dad, many people just lost a best friend, mentor, talking buddy or someone they could have a good time with,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Track officials described Brewer as a \u201ctalented and passionate racer, and highly respected competitor among his peers\u201d in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He had been taking part in a 20-lap race on Saturday night and it was believed to be the first time since 2002 that a driver had died at the track, the Winston-Salem Journal reported.<\/p>\n
Track crew work to remove Sportsman Series driver Robbie Brewer from his car after suffering a medical emergency on the restart on lap 16 of the first 20-lap Sportsman Series race at Bowman Gray Stadium, on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cThe atmosphere in the stands was a mixture of how you feel coming up on a terrible crash on the interstate and being in church,\u201d said race fan Tom Radulovic, who was in the stands when the crash occurred. \u201cThere was silence and reverence with some folks clearly praying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Track historian Justin Mincey said Brewer made nearly 260 career starts on the Sportsman Division and recorded his best season in 2011 when he won the points championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A North Carolina stock car driver died on Saturday night after suffering a medical emergency, and his car…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5218,519,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-139080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-auto-racing","9":"tag-north-carolina","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115014603190136724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}