Getty Images How players spend their offseason differs from guy to guy. For Lubomir Visnovsky, he spends his summer filing a grievance to avoid being traded to the Islanders and he’s a race car driver too.
We found out about the latter part today when a report out of Slovakia stated the 36 year-old defenseman crashed his Ferrari during a race this afternoon (link in Slovak). Here’s a poorly translated account from the story from SME.sk.
“Lubomir Visnovsky for his Ferrari at the exit of the second bend mishandled control at high speed and crashed head-on into a barrier. Luckily escaped without serious injuries,” the report said.
Uh, yikes.
Thankfully it sounds like he’s OK, but we’ll keep you updated on his situation.
Update (2:28 p.m. ET): Some in the comments asked if he had permission to race cars and according to Mathias Strozyk, the Isles did give the OK for Visnovsky to participate.
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- jacketsfan7 - Aug 18, 2012 at 1:39 PM
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Poor guy that’s even more expensive for a Ferrari
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- t16rich - Aug 18, 2012 at 2:09 PM
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We all crash our Ferrari once or twice in a life time. Good to hear he is safe though. A Ferrari in the wrong drivers hands can be a death machine.
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- hockeyflow33 - Aug 18, 2012 at 2:14 PM
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Wonder if they can void his contract now? Most contracts has restricted activity clauses; I imagine Ferrari racing is one of those.
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- Joe Yerdon - Aug 18, 2012 at 2:31 PM
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Just added an update to the story. The Isles did approve his participation.
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- manchestermiracle - Aug 18, 2012 at 5:40 PM
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So Islander management must be as clueless as advertised.
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- rushledger - Aug 18, 2012 at 4:39 PM
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If he loses his arbitration he could always say he had nagging injuries from the accident and miss the season.
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- necromerlin - Aug 18, 2012 at 5:24 PM
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Heck, I’d crash my car to get out of playing for the Islanders too.
