Dan Wheldon Has Died

Over the weekend, Indy 500 champ, Dan Wheldon died in a car crash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He had accepted a challenge to start at the back of all the cars and if he won would have received $5M. He had started well, but whoever decided this track was a good track for Indy was wrong. The track is used primarily for NASCAR and is about 1 mile shorter than Indy tracks and when you combine that with speeds which are almost 100 miles an hour faster than NASCAR, it did not take long for half the cars in the field to be in one big wreck, the wreck that cost Dan his life.