Dan Wheldon’s story still shapes how I think about risk, courage and responsibility in motorsport. His death in a violent Las ...

Dan Wheldon, one of IndyCar’s biggest and most popular stars, died in a spectacular 15-car accident that racing veterans likened to something out of a movie scene or a war zone. Now everyone — even ...

SONOMA — Dad. Husband. Brother. Son. Friend. Dan Wheldon was all those things to a whole lot of people but right now Diana Brennan sees so clearly, so painfully, Dan Wheldon, a husband. In the two ...

With modern technology and forward thinking having rendered auto racing perhaps the safest it's ever been, the concept of dying in a race car has become increasingly alien to an entire generation of ...

FORT WORTH (AP) - Dan Wheldon will be at the next IndyCar Series race in Texas. The Indianapolis 500 winner just doesn't know if he'll be sitting in a cockpit or a television booth. Wheldon hopes to ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — It was 10 years after the death of their father that associates of filmmaker Laura Brownson brought her an article to read about the late Dan Wheldon. Standing below the ...

Drivers, including Dan Wheldon (77, in air at left), crash during a wreck that involved 15 cars during the IndyCar Series' Las Vegas Indy 300 auto race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas on ...

Mario Andretti estimates that in the first three decades of his racing career – the 1960s, '70s and '80s – his chances of surviving an accident were about 35 to 40 percent. "Now it's 99 percent for ...

Among the F1 drivers, support is growing for the potential introduction of closed or covered cockpits. F1’s Jules Bianchi and IndyCar's Justin Wilson were the latest head injury-related casualties, ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Dan Wheldon drank the milk and celebrated in Victory Lane Sunday, but the it took a lengthy review by race officials before Wheldon officially was declared the winner of the ...

Dan Wheldon went into the IndyCar season hoping to land a full-time ride and didn't get one. He won the Indianapolis 500 a second time and still found himself watching. Wheldon kept busy doing an ...