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See the Deadly Indy Car Crash From a Driver’s On-Board Camera

Crash Video From Will Power Car

Yesterday’s deadly Indy car crash in Las Vegas is grabbing headlines this morning, and many have seen plenty of video of the multi-car melee. But one video that’s just starting to make the rounds is footage from the on-board camera of driver Will Power. In it, you can see cars around him crashing and disintegrating as well as his car launch into the air and burst into flames. And while it’s not decipherable in the video, Power also came into contact with Dan Wheldon, the driver who eventually died.

You can watch the incredible video below:

Comments (65)

  • TCPatriot
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 8:15am

    Rockstone I drive up to 640 miles a night and at anytime something could go wrong, You are a poor excuse for a human and the scariest thing you said was that you have kids God help them that they don’t turn out like their insane father.

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  • LMW
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 5:48am

    It is hard to read some of the words that people have said about this. They are heartless and should be ashamed. In looking at some of the footage it looked like a car hit him in the rear which then caused him to lose control. How ever it happened it is a sad time for his family and friends. May they all get through this trying time in one peace and go on to live a happy life.

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    • v12tommy
      Posted on October 18, 2011 at 1:44pm

      I agree. Some people can be dicks. As far as the accident, it started when one car touched wheels with another one, and everyone else just had nowhere to go. It is really a shame. I still can’t believe he is gone. Dan Wheldon was one of the greatest ambassadors for the sport of Indy Car racing. I had the pleasure of meeting him and talking to him on several occasions, and he was one of the nicest, and most genuine people I have ever met. His presence on the pit lane and in the garage area will really be missed.

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  • Magovac500
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 12:04am

    Roskstone, apprerently you don’t do anything in your life that is a passion and certainly have never raced a car. He was doing what he loved. I was at the track and saw rthe accident. Eleven drivers walked away. That’s amazing at 225 mph. We in the crowd knew it was serious, but expected the best. The real point here should be why it takes an accident to get coverage of an amazing sport and these amazing atheletes.

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  • 1Reaper
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:33pm

    rockstone you are a *******!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Bernard
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:06pm

    As the saying goes “live by the sword, die by the sword”. This man’s passion was car racing so it is a perfect way to go.

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  • Jack007
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:49pm

    I feel bad that the RACE CAR DRIVER got killed; but drivers know what the risks are and if they did not want to take the risk of dying or getting mangled for life they could choose to play golf.

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  • Born Free in America
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:00pm

    Rest in peace Dan Wheldon; eternal be your memory.

    Dear Lord, please comfort MR Wheldon’s parents, wife and children, so that they can survive the pain of their loss and lead the remaining part of their lives with strength and courage, knowing You are with them.

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    • rockstone
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:09pm

      Yes. Please Lord, comfort them. They have to deal with the reality that this selfish, selfish man would rather go ’round and ’round a race track in a speeding car than spend his life with them.

      Selfish man.

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    • OBOZO
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:41pm

      ROCKSTONE you are a heartless moronic *****. What a shame we cannot trade Weldon for you, the world would be much better off you pile of OWS dung.

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    • rockstone
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:37pm

      @ Obozo…..

      If I’m all that I wonder, what do you suppose that makes Weldon? I didn’t leave my children fatherless for a few dollars racing around a track in Sin City.

      If you cared about his children one bit, you’d know. And if he did, he’d still be alive with them today.

      Stupid boys… playing with stupid toys…. all for your entertainment and fascination.

      I’ll call it what it is. Don’t like it? Go home and tell your mom your troubles.

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    • REVerse
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:17pm

      @Rockstone

      Wow! Rockstone you are one heartless individual. Mercy…

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    • Racenitro
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:32pm

      Rockstone…
      Do you ever drive a car on a freeway? It is far safer to traverse a race track at between 1 and 200 miles per hour than driving on most freeways. His family was probably very supportive of his profession. I supose you NEVER watch any automobile racing!

      I feel safer in a fuel dragster capable of over 300mph than 99% of the automobiles on the freeway.
      Finally…where do yo think all of the safety features come from. 99% originate in the racing industry and eventually end up on your daily driver. I know since I have owned, driven and been a technical inspector for extremely fast race cars over the past 40 years.

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    • dasbunker
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 11:30pm

      Born Free in America
      Well said.

      rockstone
      Go join your Flea partie brothers

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  • TaterTot19
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:16pm

    As a motorsports writer for the past 25 years, I can tell you this can happen anytime, anywhere. Local track, dirt, asphalt…anywhere. It’s part of the sport. The cars are safer than they’ve ever been, the safety equipment is top-notch (HANS Device, survival cell, etc.) and it still happens. You will never remove the danger from the sport without ending the sport. They know when they strap in that this could be the day. I got to know Dan Wheldon at Indy, and he was a truly funny, caring man who loved his wife and his children. It does happen, folks, and a lot less often than it does on our roads. Godspeed, Dan, and blessings to Suzie, Oliver and Sebastien…

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:27pm

      DING DING DING WINNER, post of the story. Excellent post….

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:57pm

      When was the last major revision to the survival cell? I recall more than one crash from the past where the front of the cockpit was sheered off and the driver’s feet and lower legs were left exposed prior to the vehicle coming to rest, to the point of the driver’s soles resting on the asphalt when at rest..

      I didn’t tune in soon enough to catch this crash. When I realized there was an IndyCar race on and tuned in, the cars were already parked and Weldon had already left the track. The drivers being summoned to the trailer was my indication that it was not a good outcome.

      I had to go to YouTube to get the video of the crash itself. Pretty much all of those are just reposts of the same three videos of 3:01, 3:49, and 4:22 in length, except for one that’s over 9 minutes which includes the final broadcast recaps from each angle captured.

      My question regarding the video angles, the crash is shown to start from Dan Weldon’s in-car camera, but then they cut away to other angles. Where is the rest of that footage from Weldon’s POV? I’ve never seen it. I would presume that all in-cars are recorded at all times. Is this an incorrect assumption? I’ve seen recaps from in-cars that I never saw broadcast live, so they’re obviously recorded in some fashion.

      Does IndyCar do like NASCAR does for Cup races, and provide web feeds of up to 8 cameras during the live broadcast including six in-cars? If so, maybe some private person managed to record Weldon’s in-car.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:12pm

      In watching those YouTube vids, I was hard pressed to identify Weldon’s No. 77 black car with a white longitudinal center stripe in the conflagration of smoke, flame, debris, and flying race cars. I was ultimately able to track it throughout the melee, but due, again, to all of the obscuring effects, plus the angle of the sun and the billboards carrying him from light to shadow to light to shadow, and only seeing the footage on a small window on my screen, I just could not tell what Weldon hit, what hit him, or at what angles and momentum vectors were involved.

      The announcers kept referring to him having gone into the catch fence cockpit-first and that that was what caused the fatal injuries, but I just can’t visually confirm that for myself. There were at least two cars that were wheels-skyward sliding to a halt, one of which I think I could identify as Weldon, but I just can’t be sure.

      I know those cold-air-intake scoops which integrate the roll cage protection for the driver’s head are strong, but that kind of impact and being ground on the ground from such speeds for that long, I could imagine that that would easily result in unsurvivable head injury.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:18pm

      Hi Les,
      No, i don’t think they do that. Also, I think IndyCar officials are sitting on most all of the footage until they figure out what happened. There have been a lot of crashes with rookies making really stupid mistakes. If this turns out to be another rookie mistake they might put an age limit or time in the cockpit limit on drivers. With this in mind… we might never know exactly what happened to start this massive incident. This is the first time _in my experience_ that the actual footage of how a crash started and/or who was at fault was not shown within minutes or within an hour. Very strange.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 6:26pm

      I‘m less interested in what happened to initiate the crash than precisely what physical safety failures lead directly to a driver’s death in the cockpit. I think we have a pretty good handle on the trigger from all of the camera angles that captured it. I also think we have a pretty good handle on the administrative safety breakdowns that lead to the death. Indy Motor Speedway minus one mile plus one car + 220 MPH = no where to go.

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    • Munsonmanor
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:52pm

      Tatertot – I agree with you to a point. These guys are safer than they ever were. However, Indy used to be the fastest track they were on. It‘s a flat track and there’s only so much speed they can carry without losing control. In my opinion, it’s the combined control that these cars have and the fact that they are now racing on much larger tracks that have a lot of banking and pushing the speed envelope that creates these situations. Remember when they first tried to race in Texas with Indy cars? They were carrying so many G’s in the corners that the drivers were borderline passing out in the cockpit. The Indy League was desperate. They needed ratings and they risked the drivers safety to get them. The drivers were complaining before the race about the speed and the inability to get away from the other drivers. Sounds a lot like restricter plate racing in NASCAR doesn’t it? Richard Petty said years ago that he wouldn’t drive one of those “coffins on wheels” and I wouldn’t either. They could slow these guys down IF they wanted to. The easiest way is to take away the width on the tires. Less contact with the track, means less control in the turns. You either lift off the accelerator, or you hit the wall. Another way in NASCAR would be to take the spoiler off the back of the car. I’m would assume they could change the angle or make it smaller in the Indy car series too. These racing series‘ need to slow these car’s down or this will happen more ofte

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  • CETMEONFIRE
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:43pm

    The Problem:
    Open cockpit, rear engine, open wheel race cars are the biggest problem. I am speaking from experience, I was a CRA Sprint Car team owner back in the 1980′s I know both sprint cars and Indy Cars. The rear engine confiruration puts the driver in front of the major mass of the race car, the carbon fiber encased drivers compartment will never bee a “good enough” solution, the driver must be protected by a full roll-cage. Since sprint car builders added the down tubes from the top front of the roll cage to the torsion tubes, driver death’s in sprint cars have decreased significanty.

    Solution:
    Forget the open cockpit rear engine race car, Indy racing should adapt the Super Modified car as a standard. These cars are a four-bar tubed frame, offset front engine, fully enclosed open wheel cars that are capable of running 200 mph.

    One other rule that must be included is that no type of airfoil is permitted that would cause the car to lift into the air while traveling backwards in an out of control situation.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:23pm

      @CETMEONFIRE…..good point. Or as I was thinking, some type of air purging system such as the cup cars have so they won’t fly. The flaps on the cup cars was a great improvement. But no matter what you do, with a drivers head sticking out it is a hard saftey issue to overcome. If you look closely at the photo of them pushing Wheldon out on the gurney, his head is wrapped in gause like a mummy, that was evedent of a massive head injury. The helmet on the gurney going to the hopital is also evedent to show the Dr.’s at the hospital how badley the helmet was damaged to give them an idea of the impact he took and what they would be dealing with.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:59pm

      I’ve been watching Indy car races for many years and in a lot of accidents/crashes I’ve noticed the car spins around can goes backwards down the track “riding” the wall. If this happened in a front engine car you would be back with the same situation. No matter where you put the engine…. you are at risk at those speeds. Also, front engine cars don’t go 230 MPH around a track because of the aerodynamics involved. Just look at NASCAR.

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    • Halloween
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:22pm

      “Anyone willing to give up some freedom for safety’s sake, deserves neither”……Can you guess who said this?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:39pm

      @Halloween
      I think it was Jefferson. (Thomas not George)

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  • M3Racer
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:06pm

    I’m a big fan of The Blaze. I like it because it stands by ‘The Truth.’ When this story first posted, I could swear it was reported as Dan Wheldon’s in car footage. I knew that wasn’t the case, so I reported it to the author who responded saying ‘please re-read, you’re mistaken.’ Did anyone else see this? Motonutt seems to think he saw the same thing (see comments). Anyone else? Google shows the article posted about 12:00 EST… The author is standing by his claim that the article wasn’t changed. I’m not trying to hurt anyone, I just want… the truth.

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    • theaveng
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:38pm

      (1) Who cares? I mean really.

      (2) This article was echoed on google and other sites, and they all say “Will Power”. If the story had been changed, the original version would be out in the ether.

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  • havsumtea
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:31pm

    With 32 cars the field was way too crowded. If I was king of the race car world, I would limit each race to 10 to 12 cars and run as many heats as necessary to include all entrants The have the “big race” with the winners of the heats. This was a tragedy that needn’t have happened. Just too many cars at one time.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:56pm

      @HAVSUMTEA……I must say that is a good idea. Much the format of AMA supercross and motocross and many other forms of racing. And it still gives the fans a great show.
      Unfortuntly though there are those and NASCAR is one, where people watch for the wrecks, and if you watch their commercials they promote the wrecks to draw viewers. Most real race fans don’t want to see drivers wrecking, in my opinion the ones that do just watch for the wrecks are not real fans and are a little sick for wanting to see it.

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:15pm

      And NASCAR has what to do with this story?

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:33pm

      @FLY OLD GLORY?……The corelation of the saftey for the drivers in NASCAR and other racing organisations such as Indy car has a lot to do with this story. Do you really have anything to say? or do you just like to sit there and criticisies others with your one word posts? If you have something to say on the subject say it.

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:50pm

      fine, I will say it. You ppl are a hoot. This is a freaking sport where the participants know dang well it could be their last day on earth. One of the drivers said that exact thing after the race, and I’ll bet every last one of them said something like that after the accident.
      And here you 2 are telling them to break it up into qualifying races and then have a final race so noone gets hurt, blah blah. ITS RACING and there are usually 33 cars in the race after qualifying and accidents happen and unfortunatly, once in awhile someone gets killed.
      I know, lets just have qualifying with one car on the track at all times and the fastest car wins the $5 million. Oh wouldnt that be exciting…..Sorry, can’t help but shake my head and laugh. Let me guess, Democrats. Trophy for everyone, even the losers? Little Billy can only score 2 TD’s cause it wouldnt be fair if he scored more. There, I said it….

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:03pm

      @OLD GLORY…..yea right…..lets to back to the days of no roll bar, and heck how bout the real pure form of no seatbelts…..when drivers life expectancy was approx 2 years of racing. Yea good idea.
      It seams we have some real race fans here making some good points, and you’re not one of them.
      And if you’ve ever been to your local short track such as USAC or smaller NASCAR events they have a qualification race prior to the main events. And other than Indy itself it is not the norm to have 33 cars in a line up on a 1.5 mile oval.

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    • Loanstar
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:03pm

      Here is the problem. Indy Racing is way to fast for way to long… Most F1 Drivers will say it is way to dangerous. Oval Racing is not for open wheel cars. Looking at Formula 1, the cars are faster & safer but having by design left / right and hairpin corners ultimatly slows the cars down enough times through out the race to minimize deaths…. I think the last death was in 1996…. Senna.. I could use some fact checking.

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:16pm

      @ motonutt: I did not say one thing you mentioned. You made all of that up. Seriously, what did the comments about seatbelts and rollbars have to do with anything? What I stated was fact. Again, I find the comments on here hilarious. Trophy for everyone. I’ll bet you wear a helmet when you ride your bicycle, dont ya?

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    • politicaljules
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:19pm

      old glory, i agree with you!

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:25pm

      thank you POLITICALJULES, I appreciate that…

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:59pm

      @OLD GLORY……..In the late 70′s I was one of the top off road racers in the country if not world. In ‘77 if you broke down my time between check points (Huskvarna did and offerd me a full time ride) I would have been 3rd overall motorcycle on a 250. Unfortunetly my bike broke down in the last 50 miles and I finished 6th. In dist. 37 desert racing I beat all the 250′s 3 times on a 125. As an expert in the lightweight division I won 13 desert races in a row, That’s back when we would have 350 bikes on the starting line at a time. Even today it is not unusual to lose one or two off road racers every year to death. I have sat on the starting line many times a wonderd if I would still be alive in the next 2 hours, and still went for it as true racers do. Have you? If you have good for you.
      I have had several wrecks at over 80mph in the dirt. I have been severly injured. Helmets have saved my life on more than one occasion. I have seen people die, I have seen people paralized and mamed.
      I have sat on a starting line of a race and waited for my moto to begin while they remove a dead person from the track, then raced. I have also road raced motorcycles, luckley no major wrecks there.
      I raced motocross up until I was 40 y.o. and after breaking my legs for the 3rd time I gave it up.
      At the time I was one of the top Vet. racers in the state that I live.
      Now lets hear about your racing history….?????????? Then you can tell me about racing and whether I wear a helmet o

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:35pm

      @ MOTONUTT: I have absolutly no idea what any of your past experience has to do with anything, other than it allows you tell stories. Good for you. The story still has NOTHING to do with NASCAR. I’m sorry you have me totally baffled here. You bring up no seat belts, no roll bars, then you give me your lifes history of racing. I don’t know how to answer you cause it has NOTHING to do with the story or the comments I made. So, you got any more really interesting life experiences to share cause I can’t wait….

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  • havsumtea
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:28pm

    OMG what a nightmare!! 32 cars??? I believe lives could be protected and saved if they ran heats of 10 cars each and then had a final race of only three cars, or the top two in each heat. This was a huge tragedy that need never happen again.

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    • HellPhish89
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:55pm

      considering how bad it was not too long ago… they dont need to do anything.

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:24pm

      Exactly, thank you hellfish. They do need to learn from the accident just like they always do, but that comment is just like the dems say when it comes to gun control. One guy goes nuts and shoots some ppl, so NO GUNS for anyone. The sport is fine and will learn and improve from this tragedy.

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  • PApeacemaker
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:03pm

    I agree 100% GARY let these little rich spoiled brats learn how to race go karts first then maybe let them race sprint cars before just jumping into a Indy Car. I hate guys who think “Oh man I drive my Camero 100mph on the interstate I can drive NASCAR” Those types of morons are the kind of people who get other people killed.

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  • santramir
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:01pm

    very short circuits for that speed

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  • Gary Fishaholic
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 11:15am

    Very sad back in the early 80‘s I Road raced Motorcycles crashing is always something that you try not to think about then it just happen’s. I use to tell people I crashed at all the best tracks at least once.

    My prayer’s go out to the family sorry for your loss.

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  • Garym2
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 11:03am

    The part that nobody wants to talk openly about is that this wreck was caused by two inexperienced drivers that didn’t belong out there. It used to be that you had to work your way up to these cars. Now, if you have the $$$$$$, you’re in. When you watch the video you’ll see that one guy lost control and spun. But it wasn’t him that caused the big wreck. It’s the car back in the pack that also spun by hitting the brakes too hard that caused the secondary wreck that killed Wheldon.

    Driving these cars fast isn’t that hard, but racing them is whole other story. The lack of racing experience won’t stop you from going fast, but it sure makes a difference when it gets sticky. I’m sorry, but not everybody can do it and just because your daddy has a big checkbook shouldn’t mean you can actually be part of it. Pay your dues, learn how to “race” and earn your way in – racing will be a LOT better, and safer.

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    • PApeacemaker
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:03pm

      I agree 100% let these little rich spoiled brats learn how to race go karts first then maybe let them race sprint cars before just jumping into a Indy Car. I hate guys who think “Oh man I drive my Camero 100mph on the interstate I can drive NASCAR” Those types of morons are the kind of people who get other people killed.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:43am

    Very sad day for Weldon, racing and all who were injured. Prayers for all.

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  • Buddynoel
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:32am

    New cars are featuring automatic brakes that supposedly compensate for a driver’s inattention. Here’s an idea: I saw lots of drivers unable to cope with seeing the wreck, then reacting to the wreck. Possibly putting such automatic braking in the IndyCars might help keep thse cars apart just enough to minimize a wreck like this. Might be a way of keep racing like this a sport while upgrading the safety at the same time.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:44am

      @THE BLAZE…….Do your homework!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the #12 car, Dan Wheldon drives the #77!!!!!

      Fox did the same thing this morning on Fox and friends. Come on people.

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:59am

      um Motonutt, what did they do wrong here? It says it is from the on board of Will Power so not sure what the problem is….

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 11:15am

      @FLY OLD GLORY…..You are correct…That was my bad..But you can’t see Dan Whedons #77 car from this view……To me the headline indicates that you can. Not that I would want to. And as I said Fox was showing it this morning as the in car from Dan’s car.

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    • M3Racer
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:50pm

      Motonutt,
      Don’t worry, you’re not losing your mind. You were correct. The Blaze originally reported it as Dan Wheldon’s car! They’ve changed it. I‘m a bit concerned they didn’t issue a ‘correction.’

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    • politicaljules
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:26pm

      Stop getting your panties in a wad. The view from Dan’s camera has been removed from videos and the press was respectfully asked to take it down quietly. In respect for the dead and his family, yall need to STAND DOWN. A man is dead. His two baby sons are without a father and he beautiful wife is now a widow.

      YOU JERKS WANT TO WHINE ABOUT A VIDEO CLIP AND THE BLAZE?? Get your priorities in order and stop acting like bullys.

      Geeze, the clientele of the blaze is deteriorating into filth.

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  • stringfellow hawk
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:11am

    The race officias should review the crash to better understand what happened, but this bombardment of all the gory details borders on voyerism. What do we hope to achieve by viewing the details of the crash in so many formats? can the average person with no NASCAR ties influence safty changes if needed let alone be able to actully determine the cause of the crash? This death is tragic, and we should mourn.

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  • xoke
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:05am

    Sad sad day. Hope his family is ok. :(

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 9:32am

    There was an onboard camera on Weldon’s car. I wonder if that will ever be released.

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  • AirtechJr
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 9:29am

    Most who have spent time in the cockpit of a racecar are looking at life differently today. Wheldon’s passing hits you in the gut like a punch. A horrific day for auto racing. My prayers to his family, friends and the close knit racing community. God Speed Dan Wheldon.

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  • Mandors
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:46am

    After the debris was cleared away. The surviving drivers got back on the track and joined together to do a few laps to commemorate Weldon’s passing. Very moving stuff. God’s speed Mr. Weldon.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:45am

    .
    He left this world doing what he loved. We should all be so lucky. To his wife and kids my family sends a prayer……….

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