RIP Dan Wheldon

[mustangman759]

RIP Dan. Valiant effort today... The world has just lost a great driver.

[ucrdoh]

agreed. I say if anyone wants to change and run his 98. That is fine.....

[Spike]

horrible horrible accident he probably felt nothing hopefully

since he won Indy I think we should dedicate todays OWA race to him

[ucrdoh]

agreed.

I know we do this for fun, we get serious, get mad at each other. but these guys, they do it for real, it is risky. This is just a reminder of how dangerous this is, and no matter how safe they make it, nobody is fully safe. I'll post a pic later of his car as well.

[mustangman759]

a teammate of mine thinks he saw a tire mark on his helmet...
+1

[ucrdoh]

RIP

[Spike]

he was running the #77 tonight, hopefully somebody will paint one up this week

[Hammer]

A death that didn't need to happen. The IRL was founded on ovals. Indy, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Texas, Loudon, Nashville, etc etc. Driver have always driven wheel to wheel at 210+ mph. Unfortunately the merger with Champ car dissolved this. The drivers once knew how to race wheel to wheel are were very talented. Today though the drivers are simply not as good. You have 8-9 drivers at the most that can do this on ovals. The rest, like JR Hildabrand, EJ Viso, Takuma Sato, james hindcliff, etc etc. have been thrown to the wolves. Road racers have their hands full because they've never raced at this speed side by side constantly.

Las Vegas is not Indy, where's there is one racing line and the field is sprung out. It's not like Nashville or Kentucky for where the drivers run slower speeds with the surface and sharper turns. And Las Vegas is certainly not flat. It was ludicrous to even allow 34 cars on a track designed for 3600 lbs stock cars. As I said to someone else, this could mark the end of the IRL. The executive decisions have been downright terrible and dangerous. Take a look at what happened at Sau Paulo and New Hampshire. Look at how these drivers acted at the road course of Edmonton. The drivers are just not good enough for these race cars to be run at a track like Las Vegas. Shame on the IRL for this, this should have never of happened.

RIP Dan Wheldon. He was one of my favorites.

[A.Kline]

I was very excited to watch this race today, as I always am with the +1.5 mile tracks when Indy races on them. But didn't expect this bad of an out come...

Maybe next time Indy, and other racing series will spend more time testing drivers on tracks before they are allowed to race..

R.I.P. Dan Wheldon

[DusterLag]

Definitely a crazy race and the wreck was insane. Looking at some of the cars and the disaster left behind...

They definitely made the right decision to end the race.
IndyCar Tribute...

[mustangman759]

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php? ... ost1644166
We came to basically the same conclusion as Hammer here.

[thetrev]

I have to chose to race in the in game 77-alex tagliani (same car dan drove the last 2 races) for the rest of ow season in honor of Dan Wheldon. RIP Dan Wheldon. You will be missed 1978-2011