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F2000 Driver Burts Released from Hospital

29 January 1998

FAIRFIELD, N.J. -- U.S. F2000 National Championship driver Kyle Burts, of Tomball, Texas, was released from Orlando Regional Medical Center Wednesday.

Burts, who was involved in a testing accident Wednesday, January 21, in preparation for the opening round of the U.S. F2000 season at Walt Disney World Speedway, underwent surgery to repair two injured vertebrae in his neck. The surgery was successful, and Burts was fitted with a neck collar prior to his discharge.