Horrific Indy car 15 car pile up

MarylandMUFan said:
Could you be any more of a twat?
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Keep your hair on! Some others agree with me....

Asked whether the sport was safe, Scheckter told BBC Radio Berkshire: "No. It is the most dangerous form of motor racing at the moment.

"I think the set-up they put in so it can be more of a spectacle makes it very, very dangerous on circuits like this. Some others [circuits] aren't as bad."
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Is Scheckter a twat as well?

BBC Sport - Jody Scheckter wants son to quit IndyCar after Dan Wheldon's death
 
Fan nationality aside, hardly anyone's buying into the product they're putting out there. The only race that draws any respectable sort of crowd is the Indy 500, and that has more to do with the history of that race rather than the quality or interest in the racing league itself.
 
Apparently even amongst oval tracks this particular track was highly dangerous.

Personally I've never found oval racing exciting anyways.
 
Racing in an oval with so many cars is stupid. There is nowhere for the drivers to go in case of an accident and no margin for error. Open-wheeled cars bumping is far more dangerous than Nascar cars doing it and at a track like this it's bound to happen. They shouldn't be racing at such speeds, in such numbers, or on oval tracks. Making it closer to F1 would make things far safer and more interesting, but there isn't the money to match it.
 
Its not the fact that there are so many cars that caused the problem here, the track is so highly banked that the cars can run the whole lap flat out, with the cars all being virtually equal power/performance wise it doesnt allow the field to spread

They run on other ovals where drivers have to roll in and out of corners off the throttle/on the brakes and the not so talented drivers find themselves lagging behind after a few laps, had this been the case here the whole probably wouldnt have happened, its the pack racing thats the major issue

I wouldnt be suprised if they scrapped next years calender completely and ran 15 road coarses and the 500, these cars dont belong on these kind of ovals

RIP Dan Wheldon, a tragic loss for british motorsport
 
Barbara Charles said:
Wheldon may have been driving too hard. He has only had one or two rides this season, including this one: no regular employer: and there was a $5 million bonus to be had. FRom what I read, his was the car that touched off the accident. I hope his injuries are not major.
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Maybe worth clarifying that this wasn't caused by Wheldon. In the OP's replay he's in the dark car, at the back of the second pack of cars, at the bottom of the oval.

Personally looking at the crash, and i know it's slow motion, but that second pack looked clear of the original crash ahead until one of the white cars in the middle swerved and seemed to collect 3/4 other cars, including Wheldons.

One thing IndyCar, and Nascar need to look at is the safety fencing above the walls and perhaps the walls itself. If the fencing was changed to toughed perspex or something similar, then you wouldn't see incidents like this where cars just get tore up when they catch the fencing. Also the walls, can just be replaced with Armco barriers like they have a lot in Formula 1. The current walls in Indycar are just solid metal, cars will just bounce off them. If they were replaced with Armco at least a lot of the impact would be absorbed.

Anyway, hopefully, just like Formula 1 with Senna. This will lead to dramatic changes in IndyCar. The spectacle really isn't worth risking anyone's life over.

RIP Dan
 
Will Power was incredibly lucky to escape serious harm too, if his car doesn't go in the wall floor first then he is in big trouble.
 
Hal9000 said:
One thing IndyCar, and Nascar need to look at is the safety fencing above the walls and perhaps the walls itself. If the fencing was changed to toughed perspex or something similar, then you wouldn't see incidents like this where cars just get tore up when they catch the fencing. Also the walls, can just be replaced with Armco barriers like they have a lot in Formula 1. The current walls in Indycar are just solid metal, cars will just bounce off them. If they were replaced with Armco at least a lot of the impact would be absorbed.
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Thats complete bollocks, the walls are safer barriers on the ovals

Its metal tubing with energy absorbing foam behind it, they are specifically designed to distribute energy from the crash along the wall

dan didnt even hit the wall head on, he was airborne and hit the catch fence which ripped the airbox and roll bar off the car leaving his head exposed, when landing on top of the wall and back onto the track his head recieved the injuries that ultimately killed him
 
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