Wheldon: FIA will help IndyCar investigate

The terrible crash which cost the life of Dan Wheldon (Sam Schmidt Motorsports) last weekend will be analyzed by the organizers of the?IndyCar, which will seek to precisely establish the causes of the accident in order to improve safety conditions and prevent a similar scenario from recurring in the future. The discipline indicated that it would receive help from the Automobile Competition Committee of the USA (ACCUS) as well as the FIA, specifying however that these federations would not intervene officially in the investigation.

“Following the process of our safety protocols, an investigation was opened by IndyCar with the assistance of the USA Automobile Competition Committee and the FIA, in order to identify the factors of the accident”, indicated the discipline. “We hope that the first elements of response will be provided in the coming weeks but it would be inappropriate to give them until the full results of the investigation are completed. However, it is incorrect to state that the ACCUS and the FIA ​​are officially involved in the investigation. »

Our special correspondent returned to the circumstances of the accident and the reactions of the paddock in the issue of AUTOhebdo currently on newsstands.