Reminds me of that classic 80s Indycar oval crash where I think, is it Rick Mears hits the wall coming onto the start finish straight, sheds a wheel and then vaults it, landing flush on his roll bar too

Probably at Pocano or somewhere like that IIRC, I've tried googling but no avail.

Scary accident.

Dafuq? He tripped over his own wheel? One of the weirdest accidents ive ever seen,. And Ive seen a few.

Brandon Eves broke several vertebrae in his neck and also fractured his eye socket in this crash. Seeing his helmet post crash, I can understand why...

But I’m very disappointed with the way Indy Lights has responded here in the last 24 hours after spending a lot of time with (series promoter Dan Andersen) and some of the competitors. To see what has come out in reference to (not running the Freedom 100 in 2021), quite honestly, if I had known what kind of outcome we’d have when they announced the series would happen, I wouldn’t do it.

It’s been completely unfair. They’ve not been able to produce a series. Ten, or seven or eight cars in some cases. We’ve bent over backwards and said, ‘Let’s have 10 (event weekends). We all agreed we weren’t going to run at Indianapolis. No. 1, we have no idea what kind of flexibility we’re going to need at Indianapolis in 2021. And No. 2, we have no idea who the racers are going to be in that race. We can’t have racers that have never run there running at almost 200 mph on that racetrack, if we’re talking about safety.

We talked about those, and everybody agreed. I never got more phone calls or more people saying, ‘Hey, we’ve got to do it.’ I see the sponsor Cooper Tires is there tweeting this stuff, it’s absolutely bush league, as far as I’m concerned, and I can tell you something, we don’t run our organization that way, and I would think we’d get some credit. There’s not one team that gave me a call or sent me a text or email saying, ‘Hey, thanks for going ahead with it (and helping add Detroit to the schedule).’

What I don’t want to have happen is have 14 cars show up because people want to run at Indy that have never run there because they’ve got a check book. That doesn’t make any sense at all.

NB: So was your biggest frustration the lack of communication of their frustrations before the announcement?

RP: My frustration is I’m involved in the communication and the discussion to make the decision. Indy Lights has got to make their decisions coming out of it. There was nothing I saw that said, ‘Thanks IndyCar, thank you for setting up two more races for us.’ Rather than that, all they did was talk about no (IMS oval) and no Freedom 100. They’re going to have to deliver, the guys that came in begging for us to do this are going to have to deliver, including the Andersen group.

NB: Is there still a chance to try and get more IndyCar teams involved like you had talked about before?

RP: I would say this right now. Anything I’ve talked about is off the table right now.

I never understood why Lights has had so much trouble with attracting a field in recent years. Is the current car really expensive to run or something?