Primetime Racing Group's Chris Hall has a large amount of competitive expertise in sports cars, stock cars, open wheel and sprint cars as well as being a manufacturer-related instructor. Throughout the season, he will take us behind the wheel and behind the scenes with Primetime Race Group and its Dodge Viper Competition Coupe.
- Posted 06.17.09
- RECOVERING HALL EAGER FOR LIME ROCK RETURN
- Coaching and driving again after back injury
Primetime Race Group’s Chris Hall is hoping for a better July than what he experienced in May. Hall struggled with a back injury at the American Le Mans Series’ Larry H. Miller Utah Grand Prix that turned out to be much more serious than he originally thought.
Primetime's Chris Hall (right) is on the road to recovery.
Things are better now for the experienced British driver now living in Florida. He’s already back at work as a driver coach, and as recently as last week was an instructor at Barber Motorsports Park’s Porsche Sport Driving Experience. He’s well on his way back to the cockpit of the Primetime Dodge Viper Competition Coupe with team owner Joel Feinberg.
“Getting off the plane in Utah I found myself struggling to walk normally and in a lot of pain,” he explained. “Prior to the trip I had been receiving therapy and chiropractic treatment for a back problem which quite honestly made my back worse! Not to bore you and to get to the point, I drove the Viper when perhaps I shouldn’t. Halfway through my race stint my right leg got so weak that I had to revert to left foot breaking, something I used to do years ago when I was a Formula Ford hot shoe in the UK. As mentioned we finished more than 70 percent of the race to qualify for some points but I was not finished with my back problem.
“On my return to Daytona I had an MRI organized, which led to the doctor's operating on me virtually immediately,” he added. “I was apparently about to lose the use of my legs as a rogue disc in my vertebrae was cutting into my nerves. The good news is I had no time to think about is as I was whisked into Daytona's Halifax Hospital and put under the good doctor's knife! I am now on the road to recovery.”
