Dan Wheldon Fatal Crash, Death Announcement and Salute - Live (HD)

and one thing he was worried about going into this race was all that dirty air created by 34 cars, but right now the position he's in actually has a slight advantage because everyone else has to open the plane in front of him and even here we are. go up in turn number two oh, several cars involved oh my goodness, Dan Weldon may be involved in this and Eddie, you and I talked about this this morning at the drive-in just this many cars, the speed, just the chance of what which they call the big one and what happens in conditions like that when you're even if you're 300 yards behind and you can't stop these cars, the only option you have is to try to avoid it and it was impossible to avoid something there and I saw willpower, His car was also involved.

Wow, what a mess Townsend Bell was. I don't think his car was on its side there on 22. 15 there from Jay Howard, an extra entry, sorry, it's until 1950. You can see in the sunlight there if part of the car is broken, they show it as Alex Lloyd the 19. One of the cars flew approximately 200 yards into the air. The red flag is here at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on lap number. 12. and from above you can see the Carnage. I'll talk about the car going through the air Eddie, you know these cars run so close to the ground which we mentioned before we saw them hit the ground causing anything under the car under the floor under the tub really just air coming in under the car and up we saw J.R Hildebrand get out of his car thanks there's Dario Franchitti somehow made it through the Carnage I mean there's just nothing that willpower can do, aren't they going to stop you in the right side pit lane?

They want the drivers to stay in the cars, but what Kitty was referring to is that there's nothing she can do to avoid the debris on the track, well, there's debris everywhere. I can see how many cars wrecked and this was the only thing and there's James Jakes' 18 now that he had a

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early in Friday practice which is actually a KV racing backup car that they put together for him now no I don't see a lot of damage there , but he's outside the booth and looking at this from above, and this was the only thing we were afraid of when we saw the qualifying and the two championship contenders in the middle of the field, a big accident like this at the beginning.

In racing what happens in accidents like this is that a single mistake from anyone who might be dirty here could be anything, it multiplies so quickly that you start piling up cars, there is no way you can control what happens once that you stay on top, we're talking about three or four look wide Sebastian from Asia is ready for a little contact right there now he's trying to go from the low side up from the high side down to start turning and what ends up What's happening is that you get stuck up there. He turned around, tried to make another move putting the guys down and the backhand started to appear and that started the chain reaction.

He felt uncomfortable being in the upper lane and tried like you said, there is the car, now there are two cars that are Airline, this says. Put Big Welding into perspective, this is the horrible accident that everyone has always hoped would never happen and like we said, we now know that 15 cars were involved out of the 34 that started on board with Will and it gives you another perspective on exactly what happened In this 15 car and Eddie melee, as we know, when you drive at these speeds, you travel the length of a football field in less than a second, so something happens in front of you, you can never have enough reaction time , it is impossible.

I don't have time to do anything, what happens is maybe just a little miscommunication between two drivers, someone spins and you have 20 cars arriving at the scene at 220, as you know, we just mentioned, it's very difficult to try avoid it and, as Darío mentioned. He's just trying not to hit the car in front of him or the cars behind him that are there and luckily for him he managed to get by before everything started to turn upside down but it's also where you position yourself on the track, he was saying. He just said in his interview that he hated being around cars that he felt uncomfortable with.

Everyone was doing something. We're getting word that Randy Bernard is there. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family today. IndyCar, its drivers and team owners have decided to finish the race in honor. by Dan Weldon the drivers have decided to do a five lap

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in his honor it will take place in about 10 minutes thank you there will be no interviews or individual questions thank you okay we're late for that and folks. This is the hardest part of our job and the last time I had to do this was in 2006 with Paul Dana, but today we lost Dan Weldon here at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a tragic accident on lap number and here we are in the track, everyone lined up.

Along Pit Lane is the field of 19 cars that survived that horrible accident and made it through the five laps to greet Dan Weldon when these five laps begin, folks, we'll just sit and reflect with you foreigners, and thank you for absolutely. bigquery thank you thank you foreign connection from here this foreign disability The Izod Indycar series comes to an end, but not in the way that any of us had anticipated or wanted the championship has been won but there is no celebration behind it it has ended in a sport to move on to the next but there is no happiness and for all of us it is just a void as we have lost a truly great runner Dan Weldon Jamie little has been waiting at the University Medical Center three others were transported J.R Hildebrand Piva Mann and willpower Jamie can give us an update from there.

I can't hear Mercy Medical Center right now in the trauma department and as you can imagine, there's a lot of excitement here. Dan Weldon's wife, Susie, is two young children, his three brothers and her sister were all. by team owner Sam Schmidt is here. I'm told that Dan Weldon's parents are home in England, and for Susie, his wife, a plane is going to North Carolina to bring her family here to Las Vegas and there are many friends and family surrounding the outside trauma area. at this time Jamie and obviously there is no more information available for J.R Hildebrand Pippa man or willpower since they are still being treated at University Medical Center with this we close the season Scott like I said, not in the way We were anticipating anything, uh, absolutely No, Marty, and I think of Dan welding, just a great guy, a very, very fast race driver, someone who I'm certainly going to miss not only here at the IndyCar track, but also all the time at the IndyCar track. cars. and someone who all the young drivers looked up to Eddie and we will continue to look up to an amazing human being with so much enthusiasm and I'm totally lost I just can't believe what just happened he always had a smile. to his face, in fact, he had done three television broadcasts with our versus team, the people who do the races when we're away, and who knows, he may have had a race there.

Many people ask me why I always say goodbye until we meet again because goodbye is always so final goodbye Dan Weldon