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During the 1970’s, Indy Cart would be deemed one of the most dangerous racing sports in the world. While its counterpart, NASCAR was beginning its reign of American media dominance, it was crashes like these that led to enhanced safety precautions and regulations:

The Indy Cart is a light weight vehicle that rests only inches from the surface. One small bump or malfunction can cause these machines to life from the track and become airborne. After these crashes, the carts began installing roll cages and driver seats similar to the strength and shape of jet fighter planes. Since then the number of fatal crashes has drastically decreased and it is a much safer sport . . . although you would never catch me out there.

BONUS: Name the video game that uses the song in that youtube video as its opening main menu. HINT: PS2, you fight mobsters to revenge a death, and the coolest weapon is a Molotov cocktail.

Sunday marked the first time in Danica Patrick’s career that she has finished outside the top 10 at the Indy 500. Was it because of bad racing or a wreck that put her out of the race? Kind of . . . But she was at fault for neither of those 2 problems. Ryan Briscoe, almost intentionally, clipped Patrick while exiting his stop on pit road. Danica was peacefully driving down the outside lane when Briscoe impatiently sped up in an attempt to cut her off. Instead, he took them both out of the race. The impact instantly snapped Patrick’s rear axle, putting the Go Daddy machine out of commission for the remainder of the race. In a post race interview, Danica is clearly shaken, and rightly so. After coming off her big win in Japan several weeks ago, she was clearly in the running to take the Indy this year. Those dreams were put to rest after the accident.

Hats off, Danica, you ran a good race for the entirety