Dan Wheldon Crash Video: Discussing the Impact and Need for IRL Changes

In a day where Indy Racing League drivers were supposed to be celebrated and congratulated after another great year of racing, it quickly turned into a day of mourning and sorrow, as this year’s Indianapolis 500 winner, Dan Wheldon, lost his life on the 11th lap of the Honda Indy 300 at the Las Vegas Speedway on Sunday.   Wheldon was making just his third start of the season, as for most of the year, he was a tester and developer for a new chassis that the IRL will introduce in the 2012 season.   But, he was a part of what was known as the “GoDaddy Indy Car Challenge,” a contest made by the web based company, that if Wheldon-or one of the other four drivers involved in this contest- would have won the r...

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