Topic: IndyCar Series
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla (Reuters) - Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon was remembered as a champion, loving husband, father and brother during an emotional memorial service for the British racer on Saturday.Family members, fellow drivers and racing fans attended the service for ...
Celebrities from across American sports and Hollywood have donated items for an auction to benefit the family of the late Indianapolis 500 champion Dan Wheldon, IndyCar announced on Friday.The 33-year-old Englishman, who won his second Indy 500 title last May, was killed ...
The funeral for two-time Indianapolis 500 champion Dan Wheldon, killed in a 15-car crash at a Las Vegas race last Sunday, will be conducted on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Florida.Susie Wheldon, the racer's wife and mother of their two children, released details ...
IndyCar has launched its probe into the crash in which Dan Wheldon died, and hope to have a preliminary report within weeks, the US open-wheel racing series said in a statement.Wheldon, a 33-year-old English driver who won the famed Indianapolis 500 twice, ...
Australian IndyCar star Will Power said Wednesday that the Las Vegas Motor Speedway where two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died was a "recipe for disaster".Power suffered neck and back injuries in the 15-car crash that killed the Englishman at the Las ...
IndyCar's new 2012 chassis will bear the name of the late Dan Wheldon, the British driver killed in a crash on Sunday and who had been testing the car, its manufacturer said.Gianpaolo Dallara, whose Italian firm makes the chassis used in the ...
Las Vegas Speedway president Chris Powell said his track met every IndyCar Series regulation and that he heard no concerns expressed by drivers before British pilot Dan Wheldon died in a crash.Powell spoke to several media outlets late Monday, a day after ...
South Africa's former Formula One world champion Jody Scheckter said Monday he wanted his son to quit IndyCar racing following the death of Briton Dan Wheldon.Scheckter, 61, was watching as a spectator at Sunday's Las Vegas Indy 300 and had an anxious ...
British Formula One world champions Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton lead the tributes on Monday to fellow Brit Dan Wheldon, the IndyCar driver killed in a 15-car crash during an Indy 300 race in Las Vegas.Wheldon, 33, was airlifted to hospital after ...
England's Pippa Mann and American J.R. Hildebrand were released from University Medical Center on Monday after being treated overnight for injuries suffered in a fatal 15-car racing crash.English driver Dan Wheldon, the reigning Indianapolis 500 champion, was killed in the 11th-lap wreck ...