RICHMOND, Va. — NHRA drag racing nice John Pressure has been moved out of neurological intensive care after struggling a traumatic mind damage in a fiery, 300 mph crash on the Virginia Nationals final month.

The 75-year-old Pressure has been moved from neurological intensive care into acute neuro care on the hospital the place he was transported by air ambulance on June 23, John Pressure Racing stated Friday in a launch. He suffered a traumatic mind damage and different accidents, together with a fractured sternum, within the crash in the course of the first spherical of Humorous Automotive eliminations.

Pressure’s automotive had a catastrophic engine failure on the end line, with the car going throughout the middle line and slamming into the left concrete guard wall then careening again throughout into the appropriate wall.

The crew’s assertion stated Pressure nonetheless has durations of confusion and can probably sooner or later transfer to a long-term facility specializing in traumatic mind accidents and related signs. He has been capable of communicate and to stroll with assist from medical workers, however the launch stated, “Medical professionals emphasised as soon as once more that the journey forward might be a protracted and troublesome one.”

In 2007, at age 58, Pressure was critically injured in a racing crash in Ennis, Texas. He has continued to race on the highest degree, incomes his second win of the season and report 157th NHRA victory in New Hampshire.

Pressure’s daughter, Brittany, is a two-time drag racing world champion.