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Late driver Dan Wheldon's widow and children participated in a new documentary that tells his story. HBO documentary looks at life of 2-time Indy 500 winner who died in a crash. When you can watch
Daniel Clive Wheldon (22 June 1978 – 16 October 2011) was a British motor racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series Drivers' Championship for Andretti Green Racing (AGR). He won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011 , and was co-winner of the 2006 24 Hours of Daytona with Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR).
The 2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championship Presented by Honda was the scheduled final race of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series.It was to be run at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada USA on October 16, 2011, and was scheduled for 200 laps around the facility's 1.544 mile oval.
The film covers the IndyCar crash that killed Dan Wheldon, two-time Indy 500 Champion, alongside the subsequent racing careers of Wheldon's sons Sebastian and Oliver. [21] It was acquired by HBO Sports Documentaries and premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival .
Standing below the monument on Dan Wheldon Way along the downtown St. Petersburg race course that honors the late two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, his two pre-teen sons were named junior ...
Dan Wheldon became the 18th person to win two or more Indianapolis 500's, his first coming in 2005. The 200th lap was the only one he led in the race, breaking Joe Dawson 's 99-year-old record for the fewest laps led by an Indy winner.
The widow of the late race-car driver on what it's like to now have sons involved in the sport
One lap later, however, Dan Wheldon spun in turn three, hit the outside wall, then the car flipped over and landed upside-down. Wheldon was not injured. During the caution for the Wheldon crash, Scott Dixon, who was running in the top ten, was weaving back and forth on the mainstretch to warm up his tires. He began to do it too vigorously, and ...