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DARK Day; Dan Wheldon wins the season-opening IRL event, a race scarred by the death of a rookie-and friend.(Indy Racing League)(Obituary)
Byline: CURT CAVIN
The sport showed its cruel side Sunday.
At the Indy Racing League season opener at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Indy car rookie Paul Dana died of injuries suffered in a crash prior to the Toyota Indy 300.
No tragedy is easy to digest, in or out of racing. This one churns our guts more: Dana, 30, was a colleague. He was an AutoWeek intern from November 1995 to March 1996, and later served with us as a motorsports correspondent even as he worked to become a race mechanic, then a driver. We will miss his mischievous smirk and will miss calling him "whippersnapper.'' (See autoweek.com/irl for more on Dana.)
Nobody really knows why the accident happened. This much we do know: Dana drove headfirst into Ed Carpenter's nearly stopped car that had spun seconds earlier in the track's second turn.
Carpenter's car sat sideways in the lower part of the track when Dana came through fast. The impact was fierce. Immediately everybody's mind turned to the wreck that ruined Alex Zanardi's legs in a CART race in Germany in 2001.
Dana likely never had a chance to survive as his car's front end was sheared off upon impact with Carpenter's engine. Carpenter's car spun around violently, and it appeared his life was in danger, too. Rescuers needed at least 15 minutes to extricate him, and both drivers were flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
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