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  • Where's the Kodak car???  *MOMENT*

  • He didn't die instantly. If you look closely at the picture of him on the stretcher, he has an airbag strapped to his mouth and one of the attendants is squeezing it. He was brain dead but they kept his heart beating and him breathing so the family could say goodbye.

  • Who is the indy driver that just past away during a fatal wreck in 2011

  • @xMBxDougyfresh this one Dan Wheldon

  • firstly rip Dan. secondly this could've been less of a major shunt if the turf in the infield was asphalt, the car wouldn't have dug in and rolled, instead the friction of what wheels were left attached would've decelerated the car more. so get rid of the turf!!!

  • @altern8ive Actually the grass slowed it down much quicker than asphalt would have. The throttle was hung

  • Dan Wheldon crashing violently. Brought to you by Firestone.

  • It looks like his right-rear suspension failed. Sounds like a strange failure.

  • wow the flip was caused by the tyers

  • This isn't Dan Wheldon's crash.

  • @cbraxxas Look at the date this video was put up. This was not his fatal crash but this was a crash he had during practice for the race at Texas.

  • @W1SEG4M3R What gave it away? The part where he got out of the car at the end of the video?

  • @ProPainC63 Yes, and his fatal crash took place in Las Vegas, and he died instantly, and this took place in 2008.

  • @cbraxxas its from practice in 2008 at texas i believe. i remember when i saw him get out i was laughing my ass off. and was like only wheldon could escape that. :(

  • @cbraxxas this was uploaded in 2008

  • Wait, wait. it records him walking away virtually unharmed. And everyone is saying RIP Dan Wheldon.. WTF?

  • @HellHound60248 He died man... He died in Las Vegas on October 16th...

  • @HellHound60248 Dan died October 16th of this year, this uploaded in 2008

  • @HellHound60248 This is his fatal crash video: /watch?v=s_j_DU0sKX0

    He is the first car to get airborne.

  • @WolfEverstone  no he isn't he is the second or third

  • @SampleDanteDig0 I've watched the replay many times, it looks like he is the first car to get airborne. I found that car after the crash, rewound the clip to see where he started to crash.

    He was the first to fly up.

  • @WolfEverstone Just no....

  • @WolfEverstone

    Yes...He was the first car airborne, followed very closely by Pippa Mann and then Will Power. I have never seen an accident when 2 cars became airborne, let alone 3!

  • @tugatomsk @hitcan79 @OnVentUK

    I understand how you guys feel, but my point was that this video doesn't have to appear next to related videos to other videos with no connection to them. Just today I checked up on my mail & saw a comment on a video to me on Elliott Sadler's bad luck. Under related videos to the right was Paul Dana's fatal crash. Now how is that video related to a Sadler video!?...

    I hope you guys understand what I mean now, & thank you for the nice message @tugatomsk

  • I searched and searched for this video, so glad I finally found it!

  • i LOVE oval super speedways!

    long live the super speedways not every 1 likes road courses.

    its not the track, they all drive different wither they are oval or not.

    no disrespect to the deceased.

  • The only reason Americans watch motorsport is for accidents like this. 

  • @MrThreshold2009 If they bothered to put some proper corners in instead of a lazy arsed OVAL track, then there would be more action than just crashes, oval racing sux ballz !

  • R.I.P Dan Wheldon

  • He's lucky to be alive after a crash like that...

  • @Corncrops You're a twat to say that. Go to hell!

  • @Corncrops trolololololololololololololol­ololol

  • @Corncrops you fucking piece of shit go suck your moms dick

  • @CaptainGolem lulz

  • @Corncrops ur a fagget

  • @Corncrops You are a sick fuck. I know your allowed your own opinion but keep it to yourself.

    R.I.P. Dan

  • @Corncrops You're a 15 yr old little boy! Put the shoe on the other foot, and think of your Mother and how she might feel after reading a similar, grossly insensitive and disrespectful comment like the one you posted.

    Not so funny anymore, is it?

  • @Shmuck60 Lolllolololoololololo, this video has been successfully trolled. Have a nice day sir! And yes! It is still very funny!

  • @Corncrops Ouch, I've been "trolled" by a little boy. Your parents must be proud!

  • R.I.P

  • R.I.P

  • Then stay away from you tube

  • R.I.P

  • damn....

  • R.I.P Dan Wheldon. We wont forget you

  • Yeargh, now ya know why that old shithead is roastin' in HELL... : P

    If you had been honest to people and treated others fairly, then at least you'd been able to sleep well at night knowin' that you didn't do anythin' wrong to nobody.

    But that shure wasn't the case with Steve Jobs tho, so he ended up paying the ULTIMATE PRICE by losin' his LIFE and EVERYTHING ELSE he had!

    I just wonder how's he gonna spend all that 100+ billion he ripped offa poor innocent folks while he's six feet under?

  • @OtomoTenzi what? that didn't make any sense. or you messaged the wrong guy

  • @OtomoTenzi I think you're slightly retarded.

  • @PlatfootNL He died from that crash?...

  • @KoivuTheHab no no, not this one. but he died in a crash 2 month ago or some

  • @PlatfootNL es una mierda

  • @PlatfootNL do you meam we WANT forget you :) however... rest in peace wheldon

  • @MrTalotaikurit What? It's won't. Not want.

  • learn how to drive

  • @Tenulind YOU have to learn how to think!!!!! you stupid idiot!!! i think you cant drive a car, and a champ car is very hard to drive so stfu!!!

  • @StillBeatsYourName94

    Even a monkey can drive a Champ Car on a oval....nothing hard about it.

  • @cantescape1987 Indeed, at 15 MPH, nothing to it. You however wouldn't last half an hour at racepace.

  • @cantescape1987 Have some respect. The man died.

  • @StillBeatsYourName94 Ive had a car since e was 9 years old... been driving it since i got it and im 22 now.. so, i think i know how to drive a car -.-

  • lol

  • RIP all condolences to his family.

  • R.I.P.

  • R.I.P From France (XD)

  • RIP

  • Where do you get 250 from?

  • IRL sucks. Those pigs you call cars are butt ugly and underpowered. CART all the way!!

  • @GeneralKenobiSIYE they look the fucking same

  • @Thursday377 Wow.. really? You think they look the same? You've obviously never seen a CART race before. CART's Lola, Raynard, Swift, and Penske chassis were sleek and the cars were at least 30mph faster on super speedways. In fact, they had to add a drag device (Hanford Device) to slow them down as they were going too fast and many considered it unsafe! The Dallara is a piss poor attempt at F1, being a pig with a squat body and an overly elongated and flat nose. The engines suck ass too.

  • Is there any way this video can become unlisted or removed? Seriously. I always seem to find this video. I search Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, found it! I search Sebastien Boudais, found it. I search Pokebotchamania, found it! I search Sebastien Vettle, found it!...

    I don't want to see this video & I am getting irritated that I am always finding it, no matter what I am searching!...

  • @Ultimate23Dragon Calm down.

  • @Ultimate23Dragon dont click on the video titled "Dan Wheldon Crash in Texas" then?

  • @Ultimate23Dragon here's an idea man, QUIT CLICKING the video,

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  • @Ultimate23Dragon I know you meant well. But then Youtube would have to remove every fatal crashes ever uploaded to Youtube; just removing Dan Wheldon's crashes doesn't seem fair to me... (Besides, this crash is from 2008...) Please note that I don't watch fatal crashes to enjoy myself but instead to find out more about motorsport history, (and, in a way, to pay my respects to those ill-fated drivers...) and to remind myself that motorsport IS still a dangerous sports...

  • @Ultimate23Dragon Vettel not Vettle idiot

  • facista

  • @Ultimate23Dragon Pop quiz hotshot, you see the same video when you search for something unrelated to this video. What do you do?

    A. Be a dumbass and keep clicking on it

    B. Ignore it and move on

    It's quite obvious that you chose A

  • @TheRaindropStudios

    i was gonna make fun of dude too, but then i actually searched for what he said he was lookin for, and its all over the place... apparently he searching for other nascar drivers... and since this dude died recently everyone's talking about it.

    Anyway i told him to use the -keyword during search so that it searches for things without dan.

  • @Ultimate23Dragon

    no, but you can search for things without a certain keyword. For example, just try searching for Sebastien Boudais -"dan weldon" (including the minus and the quotes around dan weldon). It should find all video results with sebastien but without dan.

    Hope that helps.

  • R.I.P Dan Wheldon

  • ovals are just madness. Its just high speed only. That shit is dangerous no matter how you slice it.

  • And all they have to do is turn left....

  • @Nooblet68 And all you do is think it's easy. :)

  • @Nooblet68 you mean turn left at 250 mph with a concrete wall on one side, and several other vehicles also travelling at 250 mph...

  • @trex0021 Indy cars are not as powerful or fast as f1 cars so they would never be doing 250 mph on that circuit, only about 180 mph on the turn

  • @MrStig691 180 mph, my mistake

  • @MrStig691 more like 220MPH, you're only 40MPH off though :)

  • OMG... :O Is the grass okay?

  • @antraxxx89

    Indycar could be considered American F1. The cars are similar to F1 cars. They race on a mix of Road Courses [F1 style tracks] and Ovals [Ex. Indy, Chicagoland, Las Vegas]

  • when u know u are going to crash then why race

  • @1234567895473 Your question is the dumbest question I've seen all day. If you worry about the risks in life, why live? You take risks every single day of your life! On the road, at work, on the street and in your own home. Everything is a risk. You worry about risks too much. Live your life.

    Drivers know of the risks. They could die at any point in a race weekend, as Wheldon and many people before him have shown. No matter how safe the cars are, danger is still present. At every race.

  • i'm sorry if my question is a little bit stupid but, in the Indy car series, is like NASCAR but, with prototypes like F1??? i mean, circles with similar cars (in shape) to F1???

  • R.I.P Dan Wheldon

  • America's concept of Racing is so fucked up, learn something from F1 for god sakes....btw im from california not hating on America. Europe = good Japan = good USA = WTF?

  • DDD

  • that dude was always crashing.

  • @mralanv Damn you. He was a very good driver. DAMMMNNN YOUUUU.

  • @mralanv thats one hell of a black hole you call a soul, assclown

  • R.I.P Dan Wheldon. This may make people understand how dangerous this type of racing actually is.

  • WHY is it every time I do a search on anything & everything, I am brought back to this video!?...

    We miss you Dan!...

  • RIP Dan

  • @ripster8675

    Fuck u dude he died from that crash hope u like his flips and air now bitch

  • "…it’s ridiculous. What they do is make them drive with wings which are flat, so even the worst drivers can drive at the speeds of everybody else, because everybody’s flat. They were going round, basically touching wheels at 220 miles an hour...I don’t think anything else could have happened; there’s 34 cars basically in the same bit of track and they were going four abreast into corners. So it was inevitable that somebody was going to crash" - Jody Scheckter F1 World Champion

  • It was very similar as the last crash,the difference was that in this accident he was quicklier and he crashed with many cars.

  • @ripster8675 I dont know why your comment was flagged as SPAM.  I dont like seeing wrecks, but do like seeing nobody killed. It was a awesome crash, but hate he died in the indy crash!

  • @ripster8675 that should have been you in wheldon's car, you inconsiderate, insensitive pig. dissociate yourself from our world immediately, so that you don't poison anyone else with your blatant and remarkable stupidity.

    may god have mercy on your pathetic, ass-kicking-worthy self

  • That was one of the weirdest flips I've ever seen. RIP Dan.

  • some nobs about this world !

  • lol

  • Indy Racing is stupid. Nascar is better because of its safer cars.

  • @CaptOxBig hick

  • @hockey161616 Yet you're the inbred one...hmmm gets ya thinking doesnt it?

  • @CaptOxBig I'm JUST AS POOR AND STUPID AS YOU..HAHAH

  • @MilitantKaos Why ya ragin? Shouldnt you have a friend or somebody in person to rage at? Dont rage its just typing brah.

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  • I wasn't raging I was quoting south park

  • @MilitantKaos Sorry that I live in the real world...

  • You live in a delusional world

  • @MilitantKaos Just because you're jealous of me living in the real world, doesn't mean you have to attempt to call the real world "delusional".

  • @CaptOxBig I didn't ATTEMPT, I did..and I wasn't calling the real world delusional, I was calling the world you live in delusional. This is getting boring hick.

  • @MilitantKaos Contradiction alert :D I live in the real world unlike you, and you say you aren't referring to the real world :) cool

  • haha, that marshall was in more pain when the wheel hit him on the head

  • R.I.P Dan Wheldon

  • Was that crash him died?

  • @khunopie no it was in las vegas

  • @khunopie Well, he climbed out of the car.

  • @ThreexxSum dont be a dick. the best thing about crashes in indy car racing - or in any motorsport racing - is when the driver walks away from it alive. when he dies it takes a huge blow out of motorsport. just think about that before you tipe next time

  • @maxyboy1997 type*

    just think about that before you "tipe" next time!

  • @maxyboy1997 TYPE

    

  • @singingforthesoul22 This is youtube, not school

  • RESUMO TUDO ISTO COM UMA PALAVRA...........TRISTEZA.

  • lol crashes going around an oval. indy is pathetic.

  • the thing is at this crash, it is not a big deal until he hits the grass. indy car needs to be saver

  • LOL XD !!!!

  • don't get me wrong, i am sorry for Dan and his family, but, come on, what could you expect from indycar? the cars and the tracks are really dangerous, they have no protection whatsoever

  • Racing for Wankers -__-

  • They need to pull this video.

  • What happened on an open track. Too fast? Lose control...lose all traction? Looked like he was on ice.

  • @JohnnyRock2000 Broken suspension part more than likely

  • @JohnnyRock2000 Something broke on what looks to be the rear suspension, which would explain him seeming to suddenly spear straight off. If you look closely you can see sparks from the rear of the car just as he begins to head straight for the wall.

  • is it not a no brainer, to add a roll cage like what a top fuel dragster has or a supermodified, they could go back to ovals no problem if they had the roll cage, drivers head is protected, alot of problems solved

  • @TOPGUNCANADA00 agreed. shouldn't even be so hard to add the top roll bars to the new car. 

  • @TOPGUNCANADA00 that defeats the purpose of indy cars indy cars are open wheel open cockpit cars

  • @TOPGUNCANADA00 as genius as that sounds at first, think about it. Dan had to have hit the fencing around 150mph, if not more, head first. And that's after his roll bar was crushed from hitting the pavement. Even with a roll cage, I still can't see our friend surviving that crash. There's not a whole lot that can be done with the cockpit, if anything. The fencing needs to be evaluated though. Rest in peace, my friend, must be fun with Greg Moore, Senna and the rest up there.

  • @TOPGUNCANADA00 the drivers head is protected

  • @TOPGUNCANADA00 Maybe its an aerodynamic issue... But an unnecessary one sure... 

  • @TOPGUNCANADA00 Their heads are protected. They are measuirng that when the car is upside down it will lie on its nose and the air intake above the driver. Saw a seatfitment for Button not that long ago, but can't seem to find it right now.

  • @TOPGUNCANADA00 There is a steel bar looped above and behind the drivers head that prevents the car from smashing the driver's head in case of a roll over. It's substantial and part of the tub.

  • @TOPGUNCANADA00 They can go back to ovals anyway. I hate people like you who ignore an driver who has yet to be be successful but when a champion like Dan dies - OMG DON'T RACE ON OVALS. In 102 years only 1 person has ever died because of thei'r head hitting a catch fencing. Out of 102 years only 2 people have died because their head hit anything. think about what you're typing and the respect you're showing Wheldon but the ingorance you're showing Tony Renna and Paul Dana. RIP to all 3.

  • @Racecarwrecks i never said don't race on ovals fagget watch how u talk to me final warning!!! 1. u don't know ANYTHING about racing, 2. the media said they shouldn't go back to ovals 3. i said put a ROLL CAGE ON, then there shouldn't be any issue about going back to ovals! 4. your an internet loud mouth and wouldn't know good racing if it bit u in ur loose fagget ass,i never showed any disrespect toward dan wheldon,maybe one day i see a video of u going head first into the wall so i can laugh

  • @TOPGUNCANADA00 How can you say I don't know anything about racing. I know enough to make my point, and I don't like the idea of rollcages on their head. OH NO! A FIRE! LETS GET OUT! Oh wait there's a frickin' rollcage in the way. Lets climb out, and end up with burns on my legs. Plus, the roll hoop protects their head in a flip, and I only know 3 cases of people being hit by stuff which caused serious/fatal injury in motorsport. 2 were in 2009 and 1 was in 1961. Plus a tyre could smash a cage.

  • @TOPGUNCANADA00 And a roll cage would be ripped to peices by catch fencing. Dan Wheldon couldn't of survived. Watch Conway's car in his 2010 crash and think about a roll cage. No chance. Dan Wheldon died doing what he loved and died a champion, so he achieved at what he loved.

  • I know this isn't 'the crash', but RIP DW. A great Brit representing the UK overseas.

  • Can someone explain? was it dan on the video?

  • @uncorrectnickname Yes, this was Dan Wheldon crashing years ago during a practice run at Texas Motor Speedway.

  • @1SILVER112 Awww. now I get it. I just thought it was his last crash. thanks a ton

  • I have no idea how he walked out of that one. Was he even knocked out?!

  • rip in mate you will be missed

  • what did you know about wheldon anyway, wancker!

  • oh my GOD 1111111111111

  • R.I.P Dan

    

  • This is why open-wheeled cars shouldn't be driving on an oval track

  • @liltimmyspeashooter

    indycar has been on ovals for 100 years. the fact that theyre ovals isnt the issue. its the high bankings where they can run flat all the way around. they really dont race on very many of those, and have quit racing at some. like michigan, and theyve been racing there since the 60s

  • @liltimmyspeashooter the reason why it flipped was because it dug into the ground, which can happen on almost any road course with grass or gravel.

  • First dan whelden now marco simoncelli...R.I.P.