2 fast 2 furious

10/16/2011 8:12:21 PM

Will Power's car camera. Poor quality, but it's still pretty wild.

http://yfrog.com/g99tcvz

10/16/2011 8:21:03 PM

^ That has to be one of the scariest moments of that guy's live. Jeez that made my palms sweaty.

10/16/2011 8:33:12 PM

Danaka (sp?) just missed everything.... I would retire tomorrow if I was in that mess

[Edited on October 16, 2011 at 8:42 PM. Reason : If]

10/16/2011 8:41:32 PM

It's Danica. And she's going to Nascar full time next season. She was thinking about running the Indy 500 next year, but I wouldn't count on it.

10/16/2011 9:13:33 PM

smc is going to #occupyindy

10/16/2011 9:59:24 PM

that video is pretty crazy

10/16/2011 10:11:24 PM

Saw the video...went and immediately thought of Freejack

10/16/2011 11:22:21 PM

merbig: death is so tragic

smc: *stupid troll comment*

merbig: WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU, I WILL LITERALLY KILL YOU FOR SAYING SOMETHING RUDE ABOUT ANOTHER MAN'S TRAGIC DEATH WHILE IGNORING THE IRONY OF MY THREATS.

10/17/2011 2:50:50 AM

God: Troll some more.


I'm surprised you didn't plagiarize that.

10/17/2011 7:46:19 AM

when did that shit stain start posting again?

10/17/2011 7:53:07 AM

So this thread is further proof that smc is the biggest piece of shit that posts on this forum. Go fuck yourself.

Nobody is forcing these men (and the occasional woman) to do this. They're doing it because they love it. In my opinion they are some of the luckiest people on earth, to race for a living. If I had the talent and was given the opportunity I would race in a professional series in a heartbeat.

His time came too soon, but he died doing what he loved. We should all be so lucky.

10/17/2011 8:24:27 AM

Quote :

"sport"

10/17/2011 8:30:22 AM

I thought smc was for less Government intervention but he wants to outlaw professional sports, what a hypocrite.

10/17/2011 9:02:09 AM

I saw this thread, and even the video, but the video they showed on the news had me all

It was the video from his car showing him launching into the air and into the fence...so crazy

10/17/2011 9:15:06 AM

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"His time came too soon, but he died doing what he loved. We should all be so lucky."

This. x1000

10/17/2011 9:21:43 AM

outlawing professional sports

LOLZ

10/17/2011 9:27:34 AM

Pretty sure smc wants to ban everything that can even be the slightest bit dangerous. Air travel, cars, sports, most power generation, and lots more.

10/17/2011 9:43:22 AM

so the force of the impact pretty much welded his head into the fence, killing him?

10/17/2011 11:46:15 AM

http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/17/wheldons-death-must-be-watershed-moment-for-indycar/

10/17/2011 11:59:03 AM

^^ ripped the roll bar off. That was incredibly rare. I've seen them scrape on the ground for 100 yards, flip into dirt, and even flip into the fence before, but the roll bar always stayed intact. His head was in the catch fence and wall. Imagine having a few thousand pounds thrusted onto your head at a few hundred miles per hour. He had no chance once the roll bar sheared away.

10/17/2011 12:32:29 PM

^not to belittle his crash, but "a few hundred miles an hour"? No, by that point probably 150-170 mph is more realistic.

That article ^^ seems like its written by a very naive individual. People always bitch and moan after events like this. They're tragic, but they're rare. Get over it. Go complain about all the injuries in the NFL or something.

[Edited on October 17, 2011 at 1:08 PM. Reason : k]

10/17/2011 1:05:38 PM

I read he was going 220 at point of launch, so you are probably correct

10/17/2011 1:08:56 PM

you can see part of the old Raleigh Speedway on google maps

10/17/2011 1:12:52 PM

^never seen it on google maps

10/17/2011 1:21:10 PM

So the image News14 just had for this story (you know, the small image to the top left of the anchor) was a pair of handcuffs.... interesting...



[Edited on October 17, 2011 at 1:42 PM. Reason : .]

10/17/2011 1:37:12 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/10/16/nh-track-drops-indycar-race-after-one-go-round/

10/17/2011 1:55:32 PM

I was in Vegas this weekend but didn't hear about this til I got back. I did get a sweet video of 32 indy cars on the strip doing burnouts and stuff on Thursday night. I'm curious if he was one of them (pretty sure all the drivers were there but i have no idea).

10/17/2011 2:30:49 PM

that would be cool to see^

10/17/2011 2:36:25 PM

Ask and ye shall receive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRXAOV2lvfQ

It's a little shaky but I think I captured the best parts pretty well.

10/18/2011 3:34:17 PM

Wheldon was the driver of the 77 car right? If so, he was at the 1:36 mark

10/18/2011 3:40:12 PM

Yeah, I guess I inadvertantly got a decent shot of his car.

10/18/2011 3:54:22 PM

Overrated: A race car driver dying in a race being called a “tragedy”

Underrated: The tragedy of sons losing their father because he chose to risk his life driving a car really fast

10/18/2011 4:23:15 PM

Quote :

" ripped the roll bar off. That was incredibly rare. I've seen them scrape on the ground for 100 yards, flip into dirt, and even flip into the fence before, but the roll bar always stayed intact. His head was in the catch fence and wall. Imagine having a few thousand pounds thrusted onto your head at a few hundred miles per hour. He had no chance once the roll bar sheared away. "

Seems like they should add some type of procedural regulations to make sure the roll bars are welded-on better.

10/18/2011 5:31:04 PM

^are you kidding?

10/18/2011 5:38:07 PM

Quote :

"http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/10/16/nh-track-drops-indycar-race-after-one-go-round/"

Fox News is slow on the story. This was announced at least a month ago.

Quote :

"Wheldon was the driver of the 77 car right? If so, he was at the 1:36 mark"

Yup. He was standing 10 feet away from him 3 days before he died.

10/18/2011 8:51:30 PM

Quote :

"Seems like they should add some type of procedural regulations to make sure the roll bars are welded-on better."

Yea, I think they only spot weld them to save money

10/18/2011 9:01:21 PM

Quote :

"Seems like they should add some type of procedural regulations to make sure the roll bars are welded-on better."

Yeah, I wish they would weld that carbon fiber roll hoop to the carbon fiber monocoque better.

10/18/2011 9:18:21 PM

Racing boats are using surplus F-16 cockpits now. Indycar gets a hoop.

10/18/2011 9:24:20 PM

Yeah, those cockpits don't work. I'll let you figure out why:

10/18/2011 9:41:32 PM

Welds, by design, are usually stronger then the members they are connecting.

That's assuming it's a quality weld. In the field hanging from the side of a high rise, that's easier said than done. I'm guessing a car was built in a quality controlled environment, however.

Welding does make steel more brittle, so the pipe itself is likely what failed, not the weld

The pipe itself likely couldn't absorb that kind of force...not much of anything could, really


[Edited on October 18, 2011 at 10:51 PM. Reason : ]

10/18/2011 10:43:18 PM

Yeah... It's not welded to the frame. It's bolted to the carbon fiber monocoque.

10/18/2011 11:01:38 PM

It would suck to drown on asphalt.

10/18/2011 11:05:00 PM

The roll hoop works great on asphalt.

10/18/2011 11:09:04 PM

Quote :

"Underrated: The tragedy of sons losing their father because he chose to risk his life driving a car really fast"

This. These asshole drivers bitch and moan about tracks being dangerous, but then they go out and race on it anyway. If you don't want to die, don't race! If you think racing is worth the risk of dying, then fine do it but don't expect any sympathy when the car you're driving 200 mph goes into a wall at 200 mph.

10/18/2011 11:21:54 PM

Moto GP driver killed in a race

http://espn.go.com/racing/story/_/id/7140167/marco-simoncelli-24-dies-crash-motogp-malaysian-race

10/24/2011 9:09:07 PM

you should make a collage of all the drivers who have been killed in racing accidents

10/24/2011 9:35:00 PM

please dont tell him to do things like that...

10/24/2011 9:43:10 PM

i dont usually feel bad at all for these guys but this dude got screwed and fucked over

that shit sucks

Quote :

"The fuck? Where do you live? Really. Please tell me. I don't give a shit if you're just trolling me right now. I'm pissed off and I'm willing to draw some blood right now. Sounds like you're volunteering you worthless cunt. "

hahhhahahahahhahah THINK YOURE TUFF???

[Edited on October 25, 2011 at 9:59 AM. Reason : f]

10/25/2011 9:56:28 AM

what remained of Dan Wheldon's car

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10/25/2011 10:03:36 AM