IndyCar Racer Justin Wilson Dies As Result Of On-Track Head Injury – Profound Loss To Racing Community


IndyCar Racer Justin Wilson Dies As Result Of On-Track Head Injury – Profound Loss To Racing Community

(Photo credit: TeenCancerAmerica.org) – The outcome that the racing world was hoping to avoid has arrived, It is being announced that this hour by multiple sources and insiders that Justin Wilson has died as a result of a head injury sustained at last weekend’s IndyCar race at Pocono Speedway. As reported here and elsewhere over the last few days, Wilson suffered the injury after another car crashed and pieces were being knocked and thrown about on the track. Reports state that Wilson made contact with the broken off nose-cone of another competitors who had crashed. After receiving the blow to the head, Wilson’s car proceeded across the track and contacted the SAFER wall head on. It was a very back looking scene all around.

Wilson becomes the second IndyCar driver to be killed on the track since 2011. That was Dan Wheldon and the circumstances surrounding Wilson’s situation are far different than that of Wheldon’s demise at a race in Las Vegas that many people who follow the IndyCar series should have never happened in the first place.

This is a sad day for all of racing, especially for the IndyCar family of racers who we know are a tight knit group. When drivers strap into cars today, they do so knowing that they are surrounded by amazing technology to make them go fast and do so safely but there are times when even that technology gets defeated by a freak accident and that is what this did.

We send our best to the Wilson family and the IndyCar community. This is a hard loss.

31 August-2 September, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland USA Justin Wilson (18)  (c)2012, Kevin York LAT Photo USA


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3 thoughts on “IndyCar Racer Justin Wilson Dies As Result Of On-Track Head Injury – Profound Loss To Racing Community

  1. tigeraid

    I have a feeling this might spell the end of Indycars on ovals. Other than Indy of course. I think they’d rather do that than switch to canopies.

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