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Swede Savage

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.

Categories IndyCar, John Potts, Potts Shots
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