Justin Wilson injured

[MitchT]

Not found mention of this anywhere else on PH

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/110757

Hope he makes a swift recovery.

[carinaman]

A friend was telling me about the race on Saturday. Not good to read after Sean Edwards and Franchitti. I asked that friend that follows US racing whether the DW12 car protected Franchitti, and we discussed how many times Wheldon and Franchitti have won the Indy 500.

62G sounds a lot.

[Munter]

Ouch. The new car does seem to be working in terms of safety though. Both Franchitti and Wilson get to fight another day after some big crashes.

[hornet]

Was watching this live, and was a very strange race indeed. Didn't look to be too bad a crash at first, in fact Servia's impact looked to be worse, but when they showed the replays, you could see just how hard Vautier t-boned him and how much the cockpit whipped round. I think a lot of people were concerned for his back, given his previous injury at Mid-Ohio. As much as I like Indycar, I do find it odd they race somewhere where there are known track issues. Lapping an oval at 220mph+ is hard enough without having to worry about a track seam spinning you out.

[moffspeed]

yep - but take a look at the in-car from James Jakes during the same (Justin Wilson's) accident and you'll see a large chunk of drive shaft (or whatever) missing his head by a few cms...this was a much larger piece of metalware than took Felipe Massa out in Hungary.

The incident was replayed in slow motion and it is excrutiating to watch...

Edited by moffspeed on Tuesday 22 October 07:19