Robert Wickens
 

He took a very hard one at Pocono on Sunday. They are being awful quiet about his injuries. That's never a good sign. If you haven't been following him this year, he is the real thing, doing good in any kind of car he's been in. Let's hope and pray for a quick and full recovery...

I've read he has lower extremity injuries. Spine injury. Broken right arm. And pulmonary contusion. (Fancy way of saying bruised lung). Good news is havnt heard or read anything about any head injury.

It was a nasty looking wreck!

Re: Robert Wickens
 

said surgery last night...sure hope all went well & he recovers

He does have a spinal cord injury. That's the part I'm concerned about...

An update from Marshall Pruett of Racer.com.

https://racer.com/2018/08/21/updated...pinal-surgery/

Re: Robert Wickens
 

Our prayers go out to Robert Wickens as he has undergone spinal surgery. We pray that the surgery was successful and no paralysis is part of the prognoses.

Bruce and Pat Eckel

Re: Robert Wickens
 

Injuries and what have you with respect to Robert Wickens, as I, like all, wish him a full recovery, had his spinning chassis came off of the fencing about a foot lower It would have contacted Ryan Hunter-Reay's head. THAT would have made the entire scenario much much worse.

We lost Justin Wilson at this very track after an impact with his head from an object entering the cockpit. We could have easily lost RHR in the same manner.

And IndyCar is doing what to prevent this? Dragging feet is not a good solution. It is time to go to the halo like F1, or even more than that to protect these drivers.

Re: Robert Wickens
 

Disband the hole concept & run the Silver Crowns at Indy in May. They have roll-cages...

Otherwise, it is what it is...they all know what they are getting into. The halo looks dumb....gota be a better way...(like a traditional rollcage if anything...)

I am saddened by The accident to Robert.However,at any level of racing fatalities and injuries are going to occur.The Drivers know the risks when they decide to do this.There will be no lack of drivers wanting that seat now.The drivers,especially at the top levels are compensated very well for their talents and risk taking.No one is forcing them to do this.The responses on social media have been what is to be expected .What is it that motivates us to be race fans.For me it is watching someone do something that I know I could never do and admiring their skill and talent in doing it.To make the cars and circuits so safe that anyone can do it, for me holds zero interest.Like Mario Andretti said,eliminate nearly all of the risk,why do it or come to see it.

Re: Robert Wickens
 

For the racing community to put it's head in the sand and say that racing has always been dangerous and will always be dangerous is just stupid and lazy. There was a time in the early 90's where we giving all of our drivers permanent limps because of the design of the cars and their feet being at risk. Design changes were made and those type of injuries have been greatly reduced.

Now that F1 is looking into a halo solution, IndyCar should as well.

Re: Robert Wickens
 

knee jerk reactions again. racing is dangerous. living is dangerous. just ban racing.

Re: Robert Wickens
 

F-1 required the "halo" this year...(not "looking into it")...

I'd also dis-agree; "that all the drivers are compensated"...it's all turned into more "pay to play" than ever b4 (including naskar/Cup racing)

But ya, I still don't like the "halo"...a silver crown cage looks badaz tho (the ones without the extra body panels, espcly)

To be clear, I'm not crying about safety or who's fault this is/was.. I was merely pointing out what happened and thinking about Robert in this terrible time for him. Stevensville (Hi Mike!) Pointed out that RHR could have easily been the worse part of this wreck, and I don't disagree. But I really didn't think the post would turn into what it has. I like others like to watch those guys run wheel to wheel and NOT wreck, especially at great tracks like Pocono. I know it will eventually happen but hate to see it.
In fact, I wonder if Robert was injured when the car hit the wall with the bottom of the car, and not as much as the "fence" imact. The DW12's have some energy reducing foam under the seat and that's it for underside crash protection.

Anyone who read the article on the thread titled “interesting article” would not necessarily agree with the well compensated comments.

The amount of complainingn I've heard from Indycar fans this year is unreal. Makes me want to no longer watch.

But I have an answer to almost all there problems.

1. Put the engine in the front
2. Cuts down costs
3. Gets more ovals
4. Series becomes even more diversified
5. I bet we'd have 100 + cars show up for Indy
6. More American drivers
7. Bridges the gap between dirt and Indycar
8. Already has built in head protection

The answer is the Silver Crown series.

I remember in the garage at Indy with 4 of us talking about this subject came up. Dan Gurney told us. Tell me what kind of wreck we are going have. And I will build a car for that wreck.

Lynn

Re: Robert Wickens
 

I just want him to have a full recovery.

Update on Robert Wickens condition.

https://racer.com/2018/08/25/wickens...-own-spm-says/