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Posted: 01/01/2011
TULSA - A 10-year-old boy from Green Country who lost his foot is back racing cars again. His strength and determination now drives his family to overcome obstacles themselves.
Brendon Wisely is behind the wheel again. He didn't let losing his foot in a lawn mower accident stop him from chasing his dreams.
"I want to grow up and be a sprint car driver," he said.
In three years, he's finished three races. On Saturday he tackled the Tulsa Shootout, a warm up race for the Chili Bowl in a few weeks.
"First time I got 12th in the A feature, second time my brakes locked up," Brendon said. "Then today in my little car I got second, in my big car I got fourth."
Brendon is racing two classes at the shootout with a prosthetic. His whole family came to watch him leave other racers in the dust.
"He's overcome great issues, and he's led us all to racing. We eat, breathe and sleep races," said Brendon's grandmother Judy Brown.
Brown says he's their inspiration.
"We're very proud of him. And anything that you go through in life is a challenge, but he teaches us to live for the moment and whatever happens you can overcome that."
Brendon's older brothers Colton and Dalton are racing with him.
"My parents did it, I have an uncle who did it. It's been around our family for a long time," Dalton said.
"We love it, it's a fun thing to do," Colton said.
They're competitive on the race track even though they're brothers.
"It's just a big old competition to see who does better than who," Dalton said.
Colton and Dalton have learned a lot from their younger brother.
"When he was in the hospital, the first words out of his mouth were 'Can I race, can I race?' And like the week after that he raced," Dalton said.
"It makes you want to press harder and do what he's done," Colton said.
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