Monday, October 17, 2011

A sad day for race fans

I was sitting in front of the computer while listening to the pats game on Sirius. down stairs the tivo was recording the Indy world championship live from Las Vegas NV. I tried to avoid any websites that would have the results as i was planning on watching it when the game was over.
Clicked on the RSS of MSNBC on my Firefox. and there it was INDYCAR driver Dan Weldon dead in car wreck at las vegas speed way.
Brian was sitting on the couch and i let out a "omg he is dead, omg omg" clicked on the article and there was only one picture that of his car on fire in the "safer fencing"
Many of you may not know I am a huge INDYCAR fan and I have watched ever Indy 500 my entire life only missing the one in 2000.
This year I am full-filling a boyhood dream and attending the 2012 Indy 500, also I will be VIP at the grand Prix of Baltimore labor day weekend 2012.
I have watched highlights and every race on ABC this year and every race the last 3 years prior on VS.
the passing of Dan Weldon is very sad thing, what my lasting memory of Dan will be of this years 500. the was he won was legendary. and he was crying while drinking the milk and kissed his wife and new baby boy. In that moment you could see the raw emotions and sheer exasperation of winning " the granddaddy of them all" on the biggest stage while the world is watching!!
the ironic thing about his death has to be that he was the driver testing ( on off weeks) "the future car" body it will replace this one in 2012 season and beyond. there is a quote to an indy paper where he says this"sometimes i feel like a crash test dummies"
Side note if Dan had won the race he would have won 2.5 million $ and a fan at home would have won 2.5 million $ also.

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