You just hope everyone's all right in situations like that and always assume they will be. But, about an hour after that first text, Luke informed me that Dan hadn't made it.
It was one of those awful, crushing moments. I didn't want to believe what I'd been told but then I saw the incident on TV and it was pretty clear there was a chance someone could have been seriously injured in that type of crash.
It was extremely nasty and a lot of the drivers didn't have a chance of avoiding it.
They had nowhere to go. Skill does not come into it. It's down to how the car reacts, what angle it goes at. You're an absolute passenger in that situation.
IndyCar can learn a heavy lesson from Sunday's crash. What organisers certainly have to do is work out how to stop cars leaving the ground and flying into the air in such situations.
It is a sad irony that Dan was the test driver for a new car that officials plan to introduce next year.Source URL: https://headlinessport.blogspot.com/2011/10/mark-webber-1.html
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It was one of those awful, crushing moments. I didn't want to believe what I'd been told but then I saw the incident on TV and it was pretty clear there was a chance someone could have been seriously injured in that type of crash.
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They had nowhere to go. Skill does not come into it. It's down to how the car reacts, what angle it goes at. You're an absolute passenger in that situation.
IndyCar can learn a heavy lesson from Sunday's crash. What organisers certainly have to do is work out how to stop cars leaving the ground and flying into the air in such situations.
It is a sad irony that Dan was the test driver for a new car that officials plan to introduce next year.Source URL: https://headlinessport.blogspot.com/2011/10/mark-webber-1.html
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