Some of the carnage at Las Vegas Motor Speedway following a fatal 15-car wreck.
It’s the kind of wreck fans live for, but it had the results that no fan would ever want. At Las Vegas at an IndyCar race, there was a huge, fiery multi-car wreck that took out nearly half the field, but rather than simply wrecking a few expensive cars and shaking up a few drivers, the unthinkable happened. IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon died yesterday after a horrifying multi-car wreck at a race in Las Vegas. Wheldon was taken to University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The video is below, and it’s as horrible as you can imagine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn08nh7zoto“It was like a movie scene which they try to make as gnarly as possible,” said Danica Patrick, who was making her final IndyCar start at the race. “It was debris everywhere across the whole track, you could smell the smoke, you could see the billowing smoke on the back straight from the car. There was a chunk of fire that we were driving around. You could see cars scattered.”
The wreck took out nearly half of the cars running in the event in Las Vegas; 15 cars out of the 34 were disabled during the horrible wreck on lap 13. Cars had been hitting 225 miles an hour at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. When news of the tragedy hit the drivers two hours after the crash, it was decided to cancel the race after a 5-lap tribute trip.
Wheldon, a native of England who moved to the US to pursue his IndyCar dreams, was a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. He is survived by his wife and two young children, boys ages 2 and 6 months. He was only 33.
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