The car driven by Kyle Kirkwood overturns after crashing in turn two during the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday.
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The car driven by Kyle Kirkwood overturns after crashing in turn two during the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday.
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A multi-car crash sent a tire flipping fans behind during Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, a heart-stopping moment at one of America’s most prominent races.
Video posted on social media Driver shows Felix Rosenqvist colliding with Kyle Kirkwood. During the crash, one of Kirkwood’s tires breaks free and is launched into the air and over the fence that separates the track from the grandstand.
The tire just missed the seats full of onlookers and landed on a parked car, ESPN reported, None of the drivers or fans were injured.
Kirkwood’s car crashed into the wall after a tire blew out. flipped over And as soon as the sparks flew, he fell down the track.
“All good, just disappointed. Thought we could win today,” he said in a tweet,
Auto racing is an extremely popular sport in America, but it does not come without risks to drivers, crew members and fans.
At the 1987 Indy 500, a fan named Lyle Kurtenbach was killed after a tire on one of the cars blew out during a crash, flew into the stands and hit him. According to the indianapolis star, Kurtenbach, who was 41, was celebrating a family reunion.
The newspaper reported that the track’s catch fence was later increased from 15 feet to 19 feet, eight inches.
In the years that followed, fans of auto racing have been injured and on rare occasions were killed When crash debris falls in spectator areas.
In the early 1970s, the US Auto Club, then the sanctioning body for the Indy 500, unleashed a flurry of changes To improve driver safety after a series of deaths on the track, such as reducing the size of the car’s gas tank.