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At once, 34 roaring monsters began to accelerate. The margin was 2. The field was packed tight, with the two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, running in 17th and 18th positions, respectively. The television had gone to one of their on-board cameras with one of the cars. The car they currently had an on-board camera on was the car of series veteran Dan Wheldon.

He had started in the back, 34th position, and had advanced 10 spots in as many laps. As I watched from his point of view the car circling the track, I saw something out of the corner of my eye that caught my attention. Gray clouds began rising up from a few cars way in front of Wheldon.

The race broadcasters saw this too, so they switched from the onboard camera back to the normal race view mode. The screen went black, or so I thought. But in the midst of all that blackness, I saw red, orange, and yellow.

Then I saw what all of those colors were. The crash began, full-force. The race was stopped as the red flag came out on lap 13 of after fifteen cars, the No.

All 19 of the remaining cars that were intact drove into the pits and removed themselves from their cars. All but one of the drivers were in attendance.

It was announced that the driver who was airlifted to a nearby hospital was Dan Wheldon. Was he okay? Was he injured? Would he ever drive an IndyCar again? Those were some of the flashing thoughts that conquered my brain for the next hour and forty minutes.

ABC News came on in a flash. I figured there had to be something reported about the colossal IndyCar wreck from a few hours before. So, I continued to watch the broadcast patiently. The broadcast had begun talking about a robbery as I was now getting annoyed that nothing had been said about the wreck.

Our thoughts and prayers are with his family today. IndyCar, its drivers and team owners, has decided to end the race. In honor of Dan Wheldon, the drivers have decided to do a five-lap salute in his honor. It will take place in approximately ten minutes.

I knew that the long 5-month offseason would be a long and hard time for all of the drivers and teams. I knew that getting back in the car the race after a fatal accident, even though it had happened five months earlier, would be tough. All of the drivers knew that it was a very rare occurrence and that it cannot let it bother them forever. That day it was brought to the front.

Should it come to pass, there might be another Wheldon in the starting lineup. Maybe even two of them. The boys were racing in Charlotte, North Carolina, when we spoke, and their mom said she had just received a text from Emma Davies-Dixon, wife of six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon, wishing them well.

I still remember very, very clearly being at my house, coming back from Vegas, in my bedroom before the memorial service that first week, thinking how am I going to make it through the next day, next year, all of that. Jamie Little said it had a profound impact on her life at a time when she and her husband, Cody Selman, were contemplating starting a family around her career.

Life is too precious. It said he had been an incredible race car driver, husband, father, son, brother and, most of all, an irreplaceable friend who will be thought of and missed every day.

Contact Ron Kantowski at rkantowski reviewjournal. Follow ronkantowski on Twitter. Accomplishments: Drove for 10 seasons in the IndyCar series. Won 16 races, including the Indianapolis in and Also won the 24 Hours of Daytona in Wheldon died after the crash. The wreck claimed the life of IndyCar star Dan Wheldon, who suffered head injuries and died at University Medical Center after the crash. A total of fifteen cars were involved in the crash. Las Vegas Review-Journal file photo.

Wheldon died following the crash. Randy Bernard: I know Mario was very upset. And he had every right to be. He came from a different generation on how racing was looked at.

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