This was truly like watching a movie...there were 4 cars airbourn and never have I seen anything remotely close to this in all my years of watching racing...Prayers go out to Dan's family. I will be surprised if IRL survive after this...pardon my pun
IRL will survive. The Vegas race will not. IRL, CART, & ChampCar have had nothing but bad luck in Vegas. I doubt the IRL will ever come back.
While open wheeled events at circle tracks can be amusing to a degree, these cars were built for handling and downforce. Those attributes should be put towards the street and road course tracks rather than super speedways. Can you imagine a F-1 Race on a circle track?.... zzzzzzzzzzz.... I love watching F1 and seeing how amazing the drivers of these cars are ripping through the gears like they do. Seeing someone go flat out all the way around a track just isn't that fun. Sure, it still takes some skill but sometimes it comes down to how much intestinal fortitude you have which then ends up with someone making a stupid play and causing huge accidents. Sure, its always easy to second guess after the fact, but when IRL/CART/etc switched to mostly circle tracks, that was when I stopped watching. RIP Dan Weldon.
It was IRL that mostly became a circle track racing league... Champ Car was made up mostly of street and road circuits. I blame Tony George for the trouble with open wheel racing in North America. His totalitarian attitude single handedly destroyed all credibility of open wheel back in the late 90's...open wheel has struggled ever since. As much as I loved and bled Champ Car, I wont touch IRL with a ten foot pole because of him...its a grudge I just cant let go of.
Good, light-hearted stuff here. Good friends Tony Kanaan, Dario Franchitti and Brian Herta telling stories. Love the impression of Wheldon in his tight racing suit (second video). [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_YbEC2ZUxE]Dan Wheldon Memorial Service - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob7OjHO18SM]Dan Wheldon Memorial 2 - YouTube[/ame]