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17 October 2011, 06:06 AM | #1 |
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Indy car crash at Las Vegas
The biggest Indy car crash I've ever seen a few minutes ago, probably a dozen cars or so, lots of them airborne.
Hope everyone is okay, it looked very scary.
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17 October 2011, 06:41 AM | #2 |
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Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten about the race. Tuning it in now.
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Saw the video clip. Horrible!
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17 October 2011, 06:46 AM | #4 |
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Hope all is ok..
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Clip is on youtube, looks like Dan Wheldon is seriously hurt. Fingers crossed for him.
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I'm guessing Wheldon is or will be dead, based on driver reactions. Cars covered with tarps, ambulances, carnage. I've never seen anything like it, and I've followed open-wheel racing for 45 years.
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17 October 2011, 07:08 AM | #7 |
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please post the link, I donīt no where to see te accident
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17 October 2011, 07:15 AM | #8 |
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OMG that was HORRIFIC
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17 October 2011, 07:32 AM | #9 |
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No warm, fuzzy feelings. Still won't give an update.
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17 October 2011, 07:13 AM | #11 |
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I hope everyone makes out ok!
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3mins 40 seconds in, onboard footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfnjd01GR5o
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Holy sh*t!!! 12 laps into the race. OMG, holy sh*t!!!
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They just announced that he did not survive the crash...how sad
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Wheldon' s dead.
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17 October 2011, 08:04 AM | #17 |
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Unbelievable! Worse I've ever seen.
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Gutted!! JP Montoya has just tweeted the bad news.
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Rip
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Unbelievable footage. What a disaster. I don't see how he could survive that.
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17 October 2011, 08:12 AM | #21 |
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Horrific news.
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OMG, that was bad.
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What a sad day.
Dan Wheldon was a 2 time winner of the Indianapolis 500 and an Indy car champion. He was 33 years old. RIP
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My prayers to Dan Wheldon's family and friends. The sad part of motorsports. Tragic.
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17 October 2011, 08:26 AM | #25 |
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Yikes. My thoughts to his family.
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Good god what a mess. Earnhardt, now Wheldon, and before him, the greatest driver in history, Senna. Horrible.
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17 October 2011, 08:36 AM | #27 |
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the tribute laps were brutal for me to watch, and I don't even watch racing.
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A nice photo of Dan Wheldon and family after winning this year's Indianapolis 500 RIP.
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Very sad..
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