Hulk Hogan's Son Totals Toyota Supra in Florida Crash
(Hulk Hogan's Son Totals Toyota Supra in Florida Crash)
Date posted: 08-27-2007
CLEARWATER, Fla. — The seemingly endless parade of celebrities crashing cars this summer continued on Sunday when the teenage son of professional-wrestling icon Hulk Hogan totaled a Toyota Supra here while driving at a "high rate of speed," according to CNN.
Nick Bollea, Hogan's son, was released from a hospital, according to Bubba the Love Sponge, a Tampa, Florida, radio talk show host. In his blog on August 27, he wrote: "Wow. I just got back from the hospital....Myself and my attorney Kevin Haslett were the only ones allowed to be in the trama [sic] center with Hulk. I can tell you this, Nick left the hospital with me when we were leaving and is headed home to rest." He added, "The other boy John needs our prayers." Police said John J. Graziano, 22, a passenger in the car, is in critical condition at a hospital in St. Petersburg.
A CNN video shows an obviously worried Hulk Hogan talking to authorities and standing in front of the wrecked yellow Supra. Bollea apparently lost control of the vehicle, which hit a palm tree. Both occupants were taken by helicopter to St. Petersburg.
The semi-scripted daily life of the Hogan family has been chronicled in the VH1 reality show Hogan Knows Best. Nick Bollea is known as "Nick Hogan" on the show.
A Dodge spokesman denied media reports that Nick Hogan is a professional drifter for Dodge motorsports. "He is not a Dodge driver or a Mopar driver," Dodge spokesman Todd Goyer told Inside Line. "He did a test of a [Dodge] Viper for Hogan Knows Best, but that relationship ended two months ago."
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I don't mean to make light of this, but the 'Quail saw it a-comin. I watched Hogan Knows Best while the plot centered around Nick's ambitions to be a drift driver.
He got a ride in Dodge's Viper drift car, got his drift license, and crashed on his first "professional" run, breaking the suspension. Not of the disposition to give up, Nick asked for the car to be repaired. On his second run, he crashed, putting the car out of the competition, and maybe out of circulation.
The other night, that insipid "NOPI Tunervision" horseshit was on what used to be Speedvision. In between some hip-hop asshole clearly out of his depth trying describing a Ferrari 575 on a fifth-grade level and the bikini competition, Nick raced yet another Viper drift car, and crashed.
It was the same crash every time. Shallow drift, overcompensation at the wheel, and a slingshot towards the wall accompanied by full-lock understeer and panic-stabs at the brakes.
... squawk.
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