Steve Millen's IMSA 300ZX and the Dream Season of 1994 - AutoWeek
It took rescuers nearly an hour to extricate Millen from the wrecked race car -- to cut him free, they used the Jaws of Life on the 300ZX's cockpit. he had broken his jaw, five ribs and his upper arm, and damaged an ear drum and his facial nerves. He couldn't smile or shut his eyes. "I might not be racing if it weren't for what he did with my arm," Millen said of his orthopedic surgeon. A month after the operation, nearly four months after Watkins Glen, Millen arrived outside Phoenix, Arizona. He still had no control over his facial muscles -- disconcertingly, he couldn't stop his left eye from weeping. "I couldn't smile," he reflected to the Los Angeles Times , months after the dream season of 1994. "I couldn't close my eyes to try to sleep at night. " But he insisted on testing with Nissan, with the slight hope of rejoining the 1993 season. The Nissan team had finished the season running only O'Connell's car, out of respect to Millen. Millen tested for Phoenix anyway -- at the speeds he was able to reach, it was enough to convince an outsider that there had never been an accident. But Millen looked for all intents and purposes to be ready for 1994, whether his body was broken or not. Source: autoweek.com
