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 17^th, 2011.