Dan Wheldon
Dan Wheldon
Daniel Clive Wheldonwas a British racing driver. He was the 2005 IndyCar Series champion and a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, having won the race in 2005 and 2011. Wheldon died from severe head injuries shortly after a collision during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship on 16 October 2011 at the age of 33...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth22 June 1978
cars close earlier engine felt hold line pick practice running speed strange strong teammates tony weekend
Tony and I did it to the Penskes earlier in the weekend in practice. If you've got two cars running in line very close to each other, you can pick up speed like that. It felt strange running up there by myself, because I'm used to having Tony or one of my other teammates around. But I had a strong enough engine to hold them off.
buddy disagree disappear fact happen hear indy lost momentum pushing series solely time tony
The one thing I do disagree with the IRL on is the fact that they are pushing Danica solely. ... Do you hear about Buddy Rice, who is the 2004 Indy 500 champion? Do you hear about my teammate, Tony Kanaan, who is the 2004 IndyCar Series champion? You really don't. With the momentum they've created, they shouldn't be pushing one person solely at this point. ... Because if Danica should happen to disappear and do something else, then you've lost that momentum and you haven't used the momentum you've got at the time to push other people.
certainly courses experience feature level rely road somewhat strong teammates three tony
Dario is certainly going to be very, very strong on the road courses as Tony will. I've certainly got three teammates that are going to feature strongly. I think certainly with my experience level right now on the road courses, which is somewhat limited, I'm going to have to rely on them for some help.
bryan fast improvement last open phoenix push test time tony work
We push each other hard, ... We never give an inch. For instance, at the open test at Phoenix International Raceway last winter, I set a fast time and then Dario, Tony and Bryan all went out to better it and did. We always work on improvement and, as competitive as we've been, the friendships between us make it all work.
chance knew
I knew I had a chance to come back because you can come back on the superspeedways pretty quickly.
beat love people possible races six win
It's still mathematically possible for a lot of people to beat me. If you can win a championship and win a lot of races on the way, that would be pretty special. I would love to get six wins.
biggest car engine needs series stability
The biggest thing having the same engine in every car is stability and the series needs that right now. It's the same for everybody.
sober
They like the wine. I didn't see a sober (sponsor).
good victory
It was Herta's day. It's very good to see him in Victory Lane.
effort lose maybe practice quick seem speed time
It was just one of those things. The qualifying effort didn't seem that bad. I don't know where the speed was. It was kind of a disappointing run, really. It kills you to lose time from the practice sessions. Maybe it was me, maybe it was the car. We just weren't particularly quick today.
fantastic people
It was a fantastic event. There were fantastic people that I met, and the presentations were very interesting.
babies baby car equal lost tires treatment
They will never give me equal treatment because I'm the baby of the team, ... My rental car has probably lost its tires by now.
chip develop glad help motivated
I'm glad we started off right because I think Chip will be more motivated now to help us develop some stuff.
change chip face glad good great hair legends names people style trophy ugly
I'm glad they got a good hair style I guess, because I change my so much it can pretty ugly at times, I think Chip agrees. It's great to have your face on the trophy you look at the people that are on there you are with some great names that have been great legends in the sport itself.