Farewell to Dan Wheldon

[celebi]

It is so sad to have lost him at such a young age in Indy car crash. He leaves behind young wife and children, a 2 yr old and a 7 month old.

The accident has raised several questions about Indy car racing :

www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dan-wheldon-20111018,0,2787992.story

Adding to the agony was that some drivers had voiced concern that despite safety advances in motor racing, a danger lurked at Sunday's race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway that rose above the sport's inherent risk.

There were 34 cars traveling 220 mph or faster in a close pack on the banked, 1.5-mile oval in IndyCar's last race of the season.

"We all know this is part of the sport," driver Oriol Servia said of the danger. "We all had a bad feeling about this place in particular just because of the high banking and how easy it was to go flat" out on the throttle.

[courtneywalsh]

Oct 17, 2011 21:14:40 GMT -5 celebi said:

It is so sad to have lost him at such a young age in Indy car crash. He leaves behind young wife and children, a 2 yr old and a 7 month old.

The accident has raised several questions about Indy car racing :

www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dan-wheldon-20111018,0,2787992.story

Adding to the agony was that some drivers had voiced concern that despite safety advances in motor racing, a danger lurked at Sunday's race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway that rose above the sport's inherent risk.

There were 34 cars traveling 220 mph or faster in a close pack on the banked, 1.5-mile oval in IndyCar's last race of the season.

"We all know this is part of the sport," driver Oriol Servia said of the danger. "We all had a bad feeling about this place in particular just because of the high banking and how easy it was to go flat" out on the throttle.

All these dangerous things should be avoided or provided with utmost security precautions. For few minutes of thrills of the audience, it should not cost anyone's life.

[tara]

I never understood the purpose behind life threatening competition like Car race, Bike Race, Wrestling and few others. Why do we need such things which can cost one’s life?
One may argue that there will be risk in any games but you can clearly see that some competitions are risk driven than expecting risk at rare occasion.