" IN LOVING MEMORY OF DAN WHELDON "
Dan Wheldon was 33 years of age when he crashed on Sunday racing for victory in Las Vegas. He was in 24th place when JR Hildebrand spun out and took 14 cars with him, one was Dan Wheldon he was immediately sent flying through the air about 200 yards, he hit the wall at about 170 mph with that impact he was in critical condition. The paramedics arrived as soon as possible, they got him on a stretcher and air lifted him to the hospital there he was pronounced dead after two hours of waiting. A week later, everyone that knew him and loved him not just as a driver but as a friend and companion, now hold services for him both in Indianapolis and in St. Petersburg. Susie Wheldon, Dan’s wife said on Thursday said that, "Dan [has] touched the lives of many people, and I would like to invite those citizens in our community who knew and loved my husband to attend his funeral service at the First Presbyterian Church of St. Petersburg on Saturday, October 22, at 10 a.m.,"(CNN). Dan was a people person, he was one of very few drivers that would have had a sit down talk with you about what he want ed or whatever. he was very talkitive and on one of the blogs that Dan wrote that, he was different from the average driver, "When [he] first started racing, a lot of the guys said that I raced with a lot of heart, occasionally not [his] head, but always with a lot of heart, like the way that Richard the Lionheart fought in battle,"Wheldon wrote on a sponsor's blog in 2010.(CNN). Reasons he was so liked as a person and as a driver, he was a model for allot of people including myself and his passing has been hard for to get over, he was also a friend of mine. Every time I went to a race I always said hi and told him to do well on his race ahead. Although i did not get a chance to say good by I still pray for his family about their loss. Please pray for his family if you can and he will be dearly missed by me and by all. The entire racing world,fitting for a true champion racer and RIP Dan Wheldon, 77 Forever.
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