As many of you that follow motor sports know, Dan Wheldon, died Sunday in a terrible crash that put his car; cabin first toward the catch fence at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The cars during the race were traveling over 200 mph. Just a slight miscue by any driver would have caused a gigantic crash that would have taken out nearly half the field. That turned out to be the case.
Don't take this the wrong way or anything but Indy Car racing is a joke. The cars they ride in barely protects the driver from debris and injury. Unlike NASCAR, Indy cars don't provide a safety cage for the driver to protect the head from the G's that are created in a accident at speeds over 200 mph.
Some driver's mentioned that the Las Vegas Motor Speedway was not designed for the race cars to go that fast around the track. Well if that is in fact the case, then maybe they should slow the cars down so that the racing is safe enough for the cars to race without people getting injured or killed. I don't know if you notice this but 35 mph less at 220 mph isn't that much different. It is still plenty fast.
Let's talk about the car that they drive.
The Indy car is designed to be a fighter jet with wheels. The car disintegrates when it crashes and that to me may be the most dangerous thing about the cars. When you hit the wall the car looses it steering and you are just playing out the momentum of the car and the trajectory of how it hits. To me that is way more dangerous than anything else.
(Plus I don't care for open wheel racing, more of a NASCAR fan myself)
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