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[albitz]

Just saw on the news that he has been badly injured in a horrific 15 car accident in Indycar today. Hope he comes through it okay.

[SIR Philbutt]

and here it is

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/story/_/id/7111712/dan-wheldon-injured-fiery-indycar-crash-las-vegas

[SIR Philbutt]

looks like a bad crash - hope everyone is ok

(edit button please !!!)

[Nickbat]

Sadly reported dead according to the Washington Post. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/othersports/autoracing/indycar-driver-dan-wheldon-has-died-in-a-fiery-15-car-wreck-in-las-vegas/2011/10/16/gIQA9p3WpL_story.html

[robbo299]

Sadly confirmed that he has died on american news channel. Very sad.

[Rods2]

Very sadly, ESPN confirming that he had died from unsurvivable injuries. RIP

[TheBoy]

(edit button please !!!)

Its getting boring now.

The edit button is currently disabled due to problems, and is way down the list of priorities of things to fix currently.

I'm sure everyone knows this, as I must have posted it 50m times

[Lazydocker]

How very sad when a talented young man loses his life

[TheBoy]

How very sad when a talented young man loses his life

Any young man, talented or otherwise.

We know motorsport is dangerous, and we know the crowd like the thrills and spills of close racing (except the F1 lot), this reminds us that it can be dangerous. Nobody should be dying


Or maybe the risk is part of the appeal to the competitors?

[bob.dent]

Very sad news indeed.

He was a superb racer and twice winner of the Indy 500. I often thought he would end up in F1 but he obviously decided that he had better opportunities in the Indy Car series.

RIP

[TheBoy]

I often thought he would end up in F1 but he obviously decided that he enjoyed racing, rather than gayly following around other cars.

Fixed that for you Bob.Dent

[Varche]

Sad end to a talented life.

I never could see the attraction in oval type racing. Not much in the way of safety run off areas

[TheBoy]

Sad end to a talented life.

I never could see the attraction in oval type racing. Not much in the way of safety run off areas

I think the safety is based around non movable walls, and that you will give them a glancing blow, due to proximity, rather than head on smash. Bit like our central reservation barriers on motorways.

Not sure how safe/unsafe Indy series is TBH, not something I follow, but it seems to be all about speed, far faster than F1, so everything - mechanical and organic - is stressed higher.

[tigers_gonads]

Just seen the video 

Not a good way too go 

There is now talk about the amout of cars on the track
Apparently somebody wanted to limit the amount of cars running to 30 on saftey grounds but it was over ruled 

Rip Dan   

[SIR Philbutt]

On Jeremy Vine this afti one caller remarked that it is only when there is tragedy that the sport or the injured are worthy of mention. A full 30 mins dedicated to the fact that he had died (and why), previously 0 mins about his success. What is the adgenda ?
 
Dan Wheldon was a well known, successfull, driver within the sport and it's followers, with a good career ahead of him and will be mourned among his peers and fans.

Any human endeavour requires risk and learning from mistakes, some do this for us and to entertain and enthrall us. Without them we will not improve and move forward. This loss and the many that have gone before will improve the sports safety, but may make it a little less dangerous and therefore less thrilling and newsworthy (like some think F1 has become)

I have watched this  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9-QrRl1Uk a number of times and shows that this is now a very rare thing to happen.