The age of the cars has been a factor in Indycars - cars are long past their sell buy date, many have been involved in heavy accidents over the years and repaired etc. etc. Thankfully they are getting a new much safer car for 2012.
On the Wheldon incident - one of the threads on the Indycar section of this site says the following (posted on 7th Sept this year):
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Originally Posted by Yannick
It would be absolutely awesome if the #98 Herta/Curb/Agajanian/Schmidt car which already won this year's Indy 500 as a one-off team entry (this IS historical when looking at the last 30 years) would get a shot at winning this race with Dan Wheldon driving.
If you recall, Sam Schmidt (in partnership with Herta's team due to SSM's wreckage issues at Indy with Bell's incident, ran a driver in the #98 car at texas and it got wrecked there. Wheldon was in the booth on the Versus broadcast team and was rather upset about it.
That car was going to get restored and repaired, but I doubt it will ever turn another wheel, especially since it won the centenniall celebration of the Indy 500.
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Does anyone know if Wheldon was driving this chasis last Sunday?
18 Oct 2011, 08:44 (Ref:2973156)
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