Eric McClure: Medical Update

Eric McClure, heading toward UAB hospital, after hard crash Saturday (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)

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   By Mike Mulhern
   mikemulhern.net


   TALLADEGA, Ala.
   Eric McClure is reported alert and stable, though in pain, still in the University of Alabama-Birmingham hospital being observed and treated after Saturday's savage crash in the Nationwide 312.
   Miranda McClure, Eric's wife, issued a brief statement:
   "Eric and would like to thank everyone for their prayers. They truly made a difference. We are so thankful that he survived yesterday. It is nothing short of a miracle that he was not hurt more than he is. He is still in the hospital for observation. We are hoping to be released sometime today. Please continue to pray for his recovery."
    McClure got caught up in a huge melee in the final miles of the Nationwide race, and his car was sent hard into the inside wall, fortunately the part of the wall protected by the soft-wall Safer barrier. Just a few feet further down the track there is a huge gap in the soft-wall.