MINNESOTA (WABC) -- A longtime racecar driver from New Jersey is dead after crashing his car into a concrete wall during a race in Minnesota.
Mel Shaw, of Voorhees, died Sunday while driving the 2.5-mile road course at Brainerd International Raceway.
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Reports say his sports car left the track and crashed into an outside barrier.
Shaw had been racing for more than four decades.
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He was 70 years old.