Motor Racing: ‘Perfect Storm’ led to Wheldon death
His open-cockpit car slammed into a post holding the catch fencing, sustaining a ‘non-survivable’ head injury.
TORONTO:
The crash that killed two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon was the result of a ‘perfect storm’, with no single factor pinpointed as the cause of the accident, said IndyCar officials. Wheldon died when his open-cockpit car became airborne during a 15-car pileup at the IndyCar season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in October and slammed into a post holding the catch fencing, sustaining a ‘non-survivable’ head injury. The cause of death was included in the findings of an exhaustive two-month investigation into the crash that took the life of one of Britain’s most successful race car drivers.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 17th, 2011.
The crash that killed two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon was the result of a ‘perfect storm’, with no single factor pinpointed as the cause of the accident, said IndyCar officials. Wheldon died when his open-cockpit car became airborne during a 15-car pileup at the IndyCar season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in October and slammed into a post holding the catch fencing, sustaining a ‘non-survivable’ head injury. The cause of death was included in the findings of an exhaustive two-month investigation into the crash that took the life of one of Britain’s most successful race car drivers.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 17th, 2011.