Sunday 28th July 1996

On the first lap of the Marlboro 500, staged at the Michigan International Speedway, Michigan (US), Emerson Fittipaldi tried to overtake Greg Moore for third place in turn 1, but they had contact and Fittipaldi’s car spun into the outside wall. As the result of the accident, Fittipaldi had his seventh cervical vertebrae smashed. The accident ended his professional career.