No one factor caused the 15-car crash that killed IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but one ingredient was the unusual situation in which drivers had “almost unlimited” freedom to race wherever they liked around the track, the Izod IndyCar Series said Thursday.
Wheldon, 33, suffered fatal head injuries in the pileup on the 11th lap of the 200-lap race, IndyCar’s season finale, on Oct. 16.
“While several factors coincided to produce a ‘perfect storm,’ none of them can be singled out as the sole cause of the accident,” IndyCar concluded in its investigation.
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