{"id":15103,"date":"2024-01-04T18:12:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T23:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/former-f1-driver-wilson-fittipaldi-suffers-cardiac-arrest\/04\/01\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T18:12:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T23:12:59","slug":"former-f1-driver-wilson-fittipaldi-suffers-cardiac-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/former-f1-driver-wilson-fittipaldi-suffers-cardiac-arrest\/04\/01\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Wilson Fittipaldi suffers cardiac arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Former Brazilian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Formula One<\/a> driver Wilson Fittipaldi Jr. suffered a cardiac arrest on Christmas Day, his wife said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Fittipaldi Jr., who is the brother of two-time F1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, was celebrating his birthday &#8212; which also falls on Dec. 25 &#8212; at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During dinner, he choked on a piece of meat and suffered a lack of oxygen followed by cardiac arrest,&#8221; his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C1rbrccrWbP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted on his Instagram account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was resuscitated and is now sedated and intubated, we are waiting for him to wake up, he has a difficult post-surgical history of returning post-sedative, one day at a time, let&#8217;s wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fittipaldi Jr.&#8217;s son, former CART, F1 and NASCAR driver Christian Fittipaldi, was with him in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Fittipaldi Jr., 80, participated in 38 F1 Grands Prix during the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his brother, he set up the first and only Brazilian F1 team in 1974, known as Fittipaldi-Copersucar, which competed from 1975-82.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/39241951\/former-f1-driver-wilson-fittipaldi-suffers-cardiac-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Brazilian Formula One driver Wilson Fittipaldi Jr. suffered a cardiac arrest on Christmas Day, his wife said on Thursday. Fittipaldi Jr.,<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/former-f1-driver-wilson-fittipaldi-suffers-cardiac-arrest\/04\/01\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[3857,3856,432,3855,666,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15105,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15103\/revisions\/15105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}