Robbie Brewer's car struck head-on a wall on the quarter-mile (0.40-kilometer) track at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem and came to a stop near the start-finish line.

Veteran stock car driver Robbie Brewer suffered a medical emergency while competing in a race at the Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem on Saturday night and crashed into a wall, according to the Associated Press and John Dell of the Winston-Salem Journal.

Racing is one of the most dangerous sports in the world, and that danger was all too real for one veteran driver competing in a short track race over the weekend. 53-year old Robbie Brewer reportedly suffered a "medical emergency" while driving at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem,