I'm sorry for you having to go thru that. I hope you still had a way to enjoy the race even though the horrible wreck. I was hoping Tony Kanaan would have been better really. But maybe soon.
you dont just squeeze into that corner .. the speed and the angles are just too bad .. thanks again for the safer barrier slowing him somehow down .. thing could have looked like smiley back then .. thats a real learner for the boys .. again :( hope he gets well .. and is able to walk away in some time..
I love IndyCar more than any other type of racing besides our karts. And since Kenny Bräck had his accident at Texas I've been trying to figure out how to keep them safe without changing the cars.
Harper14Racing aside from adding cockpit protection, there isn’t a whole lot of room for major improvements to the cars in terms of safety. I’m sure there are things, but the tracks on the other hand, definitely need improving. They need to find a way to keep the cars contained within the track, whilst not subjecting the cars to rapid deceleration (ie: car hitting a fence post), yet not drastically obstructing spectators view. Not an easy feat!
Precisely! But Bob went in belly first... Dan went in head first.. Hitting a stanchion with his head. Dead that instant. NASCAR STANCHIONS INSIDE the fencing... Outside HERE! Bob asked for what he got... Rookies!
This looks like Mike Conway's crash. This isn't near big enough to be Wheldon's crash and he didn't go in upside down. Let's not throw crashes around loosely.
Mike Hergenroether they can't use the halo on ovals. They block the drivers vision on even the slightest banking. The should have a military grade ballistic windscreen ready for 19. It's been tested on the cars and there has been no vertigo reported like Vetal did in the F1 version.
Sera que o Robert Wickens vai sobreviver a esse acidente. Vou torcer para que nao fique nenhuma sequela permanente no Robert Wickens. Voce vai sair dessa Robert Wickens.
Let's wait til the surgery is done before we sat he's okay. He's in spinal surgery tonight. I don't wanna say he's okay until we know he can race again.
Vegan Vampire if he is healthy he'll come back. I don't doubt that, but we don't know if he'll physically be able to yet. Still not determined the severity of his spinal injury.
A tighter, smaller mesh fence? Make them smaller and tighter so they don't give away as much! That's my thinking as of now and since the accident. Make the fence as tight as possible with the ram jacks and tools we have now days to help the blow of hitting the loose fence and hitting the poles of the fencing.
Harper14Racing I follow racing conversation closely on a number of forums, and this is the first time I've heard this idea. It's not bad. Idk how much they'd be willing or able to do it in front of grand stands but it should be experimented with. I mean look at baseball right now. They've expanded safety netting further down the foul line and in doing so they're spinning the strands tighter so the mesh is thinner and they can use less spacing without hurting visibility. We need to look into that using higher strength fibers and metals or something along the lines, to do what you just said. I don't know that that avenue has ever been discussed, and it would certainly be cheaper than using opticor, which would work but is impossible on cost alone.
I was thinking of something along these lines as well. In downhill skiing they changed their ‘catch fence’ to smaller holed fencing and it has improved safety in the sense that the skier is not subjected to deceleration as much. I believe something similar could be adopted by motorsport.
A flexible fence design that doesn't need rigid support poles to hold it up. It was the fence pole which shredded the car and sent it spinning back onto the track.
Nathancsx 755 after F1 and WEC indycars are the most technologically advanced race cars in the world and were lapping Pocono around 40-50 mph faster than the Cup cars. So of course they are more dangerous. Just think of how many laps down the leading cup car would be if an Indycar raced against a NASCAR field.
Robert just scored a podium finish at the Daytona touring car race. Legend.
And now he’s a winner at Watkins Glen!
He’s like joe from family guy ♿️ 😂
He’s a champion now!
Coming back to watch this 2 years later after watching his road to recovery on Twitter is a great way to see how determined he is to walk again
He is alive though right?
@@BlueEditboatyes
I was there in person that was very scary to watch. The entire crowd went silent in terror
Joel Hernandez ya i was there was very frightening
I'm sorry for you having to go thru that. I hope you still had a way to enjoy the race even though the horrible wreck.
I was hoping Tony Kanaan would have been better really. But maybe soon.
Me too
Well sad. Robert is a paraplegic.
Joel Hernandez I’m really sorry you saw that happen. I guess Was it pretty traumatic?
I really hate it when these cars hit the fence like that.
whoa that was massive,thoughts n' prayers for wickens
Ryan Hunter-Reay was a LUCKY MAN to not collect a spinning side pod to the face.
Especially with Wickens' car hitting the onboard camera on Hunter-Reay's roll hoop.
HANS device definitely saved his life in this crash
HANS and that ridiculously strong saftey cell chassis
Paralyzed from the waist down...I wish him a speedy recovery!
Nantille Boards chest down actually. It sucks.
@@A1Pariah That's very sad!
Like joe from family guy 😂
Holy safety Batman. Think of the results of this kind of accident just 20 years ago.
Lotus Turbine crashes 1968...
Mike Spence
Riveted aluminum tubs
Fuel bladders.... not cells
Sketchy fire extinguishers...
Progress!
Carbon fiber!
You don't battle for position in turn two at Pocono. That's a no-no. I've seen more crashes there than any other turn.
Absolutely.
you dont just squeeze into that corner .. the speed and the angles are just too bad .. thanks again for the safer barrier slowing him somehow down .. thing could have looked like smiley back then .. thats a real learner for the boys .. again :(
hope he gets well .. and is able to walk away in some time..
Its a understandeble mistake from a recruite
skateski, I think RHR assumed he had lifted by that point, and not left his nose inside RHR's, rear.
Dude is a rookie, he didn’t know.
You are right Robert hit the safer barrier first the hit the fence with the belly of the car. Dan hit the fence with the cockpit toward the fence .
It is terrible that IndyCar is returning to Pocono this year despite this crash that was so close to killing Robert Wickens.
It's not the track just shit happens racing is dangerous period what are we gonna do if we have a fatal crash at the 500 stop racing at Indy
So glad he was ok sucks that he’s paralysed from the waste down wish him the best of luck in recovery
Thank goodness that was near fatal cause that was terrible. (Wickens is breathing on his own.)
And as crazy as it is to believe he announced today he will be getting back behind the wheel and racing sports cars in 2022
Do you know if his car will be modified to do all hand controls?
I love IndyCar more than any other type of racing besides our karts. And since Kenny Bräck had his accident at Texas I've been trying to figure out how to keep them safe without changing the cars.
Harper14Racing aside from adding cockpit protection, there isn’t a whole lot of room for major improvements to the cars in terms of safety. I’m sure there are things, but the tracks on the other hand, definitely need improving.
They need to find a way to keep the cars contained within the track, whilst not subjecting the cars to rapid deceleration (ie: car hitting a fence post), yet not drastically obstructing spectators view.
Not an easy feat!
Keep Robert in our prayers. It looked like the Las Vegas accident or Dan Wheldon was killed
Precisely!
But Bob went in belly first...
Dan went in head first..
Hitting a stanchion with his head.
Dead that instant.
NASCAR STANCHIONS
INSIDE the fencing...
Outside HERE!
Bob asked for what he got...
Rookies!
That crash isn't even similar to what happened to Dan Wheldon in Las Vegas.
This looks like Mike Conway's crash. This isn't near big enough to be Wheldon's crash and he didn't go in upside down. Let's not throw crashes around loosely.
Not to mention the Las Vegas track is smaller than Pocono and they were at an unsafe speed.
Anyone see the in car from Hunter Reay? I'm starting to think a halo might not be a bad thing.
Mike Hergenroether they can't use the halo on ovals. They block the drivers vision on even the slightest banking. The should have a military grade ballistic windscreen ready for 19. It's been tested on the cars and there has been no vertigo reported like Vetal did in the F1 version.
Sera que o Robert Wickens vai sobreviver a esse acidente. Vou torcer para que nao fique nenhuma sequela permanente no Robert Wickens. Voce vai sair dessa Robert Wickens.
One tire went out of the track
yep i saw that, did you see how it rode the top of the fence for a while?
#PrayForRobertWickens
Robbie became paralyzed because of this crash. #GetWellWickens
Oh my goodness.
He has orthopedic injuries. No other details as yet
NASCAR
Michael Mcghghy What do you mean by just saying :NASCAR"? What does that have to do with anything in this video?
Atleast the fence did it's job,also robert is ok
pants well, as far as we know. That was about 5 hours ago, he’s been in the hospital since then. Hopefully all ends well and Robbie is okay though.
Let's wait til the surgery is done before we sat he's okay. He's in spinal surgery tonight. I don't wanna say he's okay until we know he can race again.
AlexMacIsKING I hope he is fine, but the question is, with having that experience as a rookie, will he come back to indycar?
Vegan Vampire if he is healthy he'll come back. I don't doubt that, but we don't know if he'll physically be able to yet. Still not determined the severity of his spinal injury.
@@Alex_Mac_ most definitely he'll be back once he's cleared.
I would as well if i was able.
A tighter, smaller mesh fence? Make them smaller and tighter so they don't give away as much!
That's my thinking as of now and since the accident.
Make the fence as tight as possible with the ram jacks and tools we have now days to help the blow of hitting the loose fence and hitting the poles of the fencing.
Harper14Racing I follow racing conversation closely on a number of forums, and this is the first time I've heard this idea. It's not bad. Idk how much they'd be willing or able to do it in front of grand stands but it should be experimented with. I mean look at baseball right now. They've expanded safety netting further down the foul line and in doing so they're spinning the strands tighter so the mesh is thinner and they can use less spacing without hurting visibility. We need to look into that using higher strength fibers and metals or something along the lines, to do what you just said. I don't know that that avenue has ever been discussed, and it would certainly be cheaper than using opticor, which would work but is impossible on cost alone.
I was thinking of something along these lines as well. In downhill skiing they changed their ‘catch fence’ to smaller holed fencing and it has improved safety in the sense that the skier is not subjected to deceleration as much. I believe something similar could be adopted by motorsport.
A flexible fence design that doesn't need rigid support poles to hold it up. It was the fence pole which shredded the car and sent it spinning back onto the track.
Neal B for sure. If they threw enough money at this someone would find a solution.
At the least the catch fence did its job
I was at the race
0:22
Did he die?
JohnDeereDriver no
Good
Paul Tracy had posted that the driver is being treated for injuries to his lower extremities, right arm and spine .
So he is out all year
Thank you.... the press has stone walled it, so far..
Lets see if he ends up like Alex Zanardi
Clay Reggazoni...
Or a paraplegic!
Serious shit!
Dan Weldon!
375GTB no
All theses wrecks are terrible
This is why Nascar is better cause you have no chance of dying or but being injured but you're always ok indycar is more dangerous
Nathancsx 75 Dale Jr might disagree with that.
Nathancsx 755 after F1 and WEC indycars are the most technologically advanced race cars in the world and were lapping Pocono around 40-50 mph faster than the Cup cars. So of course they are more dangerous.
Just think of how many laps down the leading cup car would be if an Indycar raced against a NASCAR field.