RIP Dan Wheldon

m4a1mustang · 10-17-2011, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by cossie1600

That sucks. Did he die on impact or at the hospital? The details are a little murky, I guess that's what happens when you are in a third tier sport

I hope they stop going to a lot of these banked ovals, let them go back on the road courses and design safer cars

From what I've heard he was still alive when they got him to the medical center but he was 100% unresponsive and dying. I just hope it was painless for him.

They have the safer car design coming next year (see my earlier post on the first page). I think the oval racing is good, they just need to get the cars so they aren't running in those huge packs at those speeds. There are ways to change the cars to do that.

There are plenty of great ovals out there for them to race on, that the series has been leaving recently... New Hampshire, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Iowa... all really challenging ovals for those cars. Not just foot to the floor and pray like Las Vegas.