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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snowl" data-source="post: 11149852" data-attributes="member: 374230"><img src="http://i.usatoday.net/sports/_photos/2011/10/16/Dan-Wheldon-dies-in-huge-IndyCar-crash-6PFS0FI-x-large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />LAS VEGAS (AP)  – Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway  after his car became ensnarled in a fiery 15-car pileup on Lap 13, flew  over another vehicle and landed in a catch fence just outside turn 2.The 33-year-old racer was a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, including this year's race.Three other drivers, including championship contender Will Power, were hurt in the pileup.Weldon was airlifted from the track to University Medical Center; about two hours later, his colleagues were told of his death.<img src="http://i.usatoday.net/_common/_notches/abc986ea-6756-4e62-99d1-9d5402fc11a5-Dan-Wheldon-dies-in-huge-IndyCar-crash-6PFRORM-x.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />By Jennifer Stewart, US PresswireDan  Wheldon (77) goes airborn as JR Hildebrand (4) , Vitor Meira (14) ,  Charlie Kimball (83) , Tomas Scheckter (57) , Pippa Mann (30) crash  during Sunday's Izod IndyCar finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway."IndyCar  is very sad to announce that Dan Wheldon has passed away from  unsurvivable injuries," IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard said. "Our thoughts  and prayers are with his family today. IndyCar, its drivers and owners,  have decided to end the race."In his honor, drivers took part in a five-lap salute around the oval.IndyCar has not had a fatality since Paul Dana was killed at Homestead in 2006. He died after a crash in a morning warmup.Sunday's wreck left Townsend Bell upside down while smoldering cars and debris littered the track nearly halfway up the straightaway of the 1.5-mile oval.The track was red-flagged following the accidents while crews worked on fences and removed smashed cars.Wheldon started in the back of the pack but quickly worked his way through the 34-car field before the wreck."It was like a movie scene which they try to make as gnarly as possible," said Danica Patrick,  making her final IndyCar start. "It was debris everywhere across the  whole track, you could smell the smoke, you could see the billowing  smoke on the back straight from the car. There was a chunk of fire that  we were driving around. You could see cars scattered.Drivers had been concerned about the high speeds at the track, where they were hitting nearly 225 mph during practice.Their  concerns became reality when contact on Turn 2 sent cars flying through  the air, crashing into each other and into the outside wall and catch  fence."I'll tell you, I've never seen anything like it," Ryan Briscoe  said. "The debris we all had to drive through the lap later, it looked  like a war scene from Terminator or something. I mean, there were just  pieces of metal and car on fire in the middle of the track with no car  attached to it and just debris everywhere. So it was scary, and your  first thoughts are hoping that no one is hurt because there's just stuff  everywhere. Crazy."It was Wheldon's 134th career start, but only the third of the season for the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner.Points-leader  Dario Franchitti avoided the crash, and seemed stunned as he waited out  the clean-up on pit road. Franchitti clinched his third straight title  and fourth overall after Power went out.Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. </blockquote>

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