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Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Well said Uncle Bob, it is indeed extremely unfortunate that he joined the ranks of many young motor sports stars that ended their lives at an early age. It is a shame that he is gone as well as Dale Sr. and Eric Medlen among others, but I believe that they all perished doing what they loved best.

Dan's death was eerily similar too Greg Moore's death. The way the car hit the catch fence and being the last race of the season. Maybe less wing and down force would have kept the car on the ground. The older cars never seemed to fly like that in incidents.

Originally Posted by Two8tyThree

Dan's death was eerily similar too Greg Moore's death. The way the car hit the catch fence and being the last race of the season. Maybe less wing and down force would have kept the car on the ground. The older cars never seemed to fly like that in incidents.

Did you click the link HWorrell put up??? It's an interesting article by a guy who knows Indy cars, not some media dude pushing the hype to increase his ratings.... Anyway, the author gets into some of the same things you mention concerning the aero on the current car, when they get in the air they fly, not just bump wheels, go up and fall down like a sprint car or a midget. Waiting to see the 2012 car and what all has been changed on it.

You mention Indy and the Milwaukee Mile, brings back a lot of memories for me. When I was a kid, Dad and us boys went to Indy every year, including a seat to watch the Mini-Indy at the 18th Street Speedway, the Indy 500 on Monday, then up to Milwaukee for the Indy Car race there the next Sunday!!!! When we got home we would get after our own summer racing program(s) with those three races as our motivation!!! My pals were all circle burners and ran to the mailbox on Thursday to get this weeks copy of Speed Sport and see how our hero drivers in USAC had done the weekend before, we all aspired to race USAC midgets, sprints, and Champ cars and dreamed of the day that maybe we would be good enough someday to run Indy!!!! None of us made it, but the dream kept us going!!!! Now, you just buy a ride and go race Indy cars......