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Potts’s Shots: Remembering a 1973 Racing Tragedy

January 25, 2023August 11, 2011 by Frontstretch Staff

Q: I always thought that Swede Savage had died from kidney failure (as many burn victims do), about 33 days after the accident in the 1973 Indy 500.

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