Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Motorsport pays tribute to Wheldon

Drivers, teams and officials from the IndyCar Series and the rest of worldwide motorsport have been paying tribute to 2005 and 2011 Indianapolis 500 winner and '05 IndyCar champion Dan Wheldon, who died in an accident at Las Vegas on Sunday. The 33-year-old Briton was involved in a 15-car pile-up on lap 12 of the race, with his Sam Schmidt Motorsports car launched into the air in the accident and rolling across the track before making contact with the safety fence and barrier. He was airlifted to hospital but died from what were described as "unsurvivable injuries." Wheldon had started from the rear of the field as part of a $5 million challenge that would have seen him and a randomly chosen fan win $2.5 million each had he won the race, which was cancelled after the crash

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/indycar-news/indycar/motorsport-pays-tribute-to-wheldon/

Alan Dennis Kulwicki Travis Wade Kvapil Robert Allen Labonte Terrence Lee Labonte Randy Joseph Lajoie

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