IndyCar report: Dan Wheldon died when his head hit fence post

Dan Wheldon's car bursts into flames in the pile-up during the Las Vegas Indy 300. Photograph: Robert Laberge/Getty Images

Dan Wheldon was killed when his head hit a post in the fencing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, contact that created a "non-survivable injury" to the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner.

IndyCar officials released their findings on Thursday of the 16 October accident in the season finale. Wheldon was killed in an early 15-car accident when his car launched into the catchfence.

The reports finds several factors contributed to what became a "perfect storm", and no one reason could be singled out as the sole cause of the accident. IndyCar found it is "impossible to determine with certainty that the result would have been any different if one or more of the factors did not exist."

The race had a season-high 34 cars and was held on a high-banked oval. IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard says the size of the field and the banking itself were not solely responsible for the accident.

IndyCar officials don't believe the construction of the fence at Las Vegas Motor Speedway played a role in the death of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon.

Instead, the larger factor was the wide grooves at the speedway that gave drivers a "limitless racing surface."

Las Vegas is owned by Speedway Motor Sports Inc., and the organization constructs its fences with the posts inside the wiring. IndyCar president Brian Barnhart says there is no indication Wheldon would have survived had the post been on the outside of the mesh wiring.

Wheldon, from Olney in Buckinghamshire, achieved stardom in the United States where he won the IndyCar Series – and its signature race – in 2005 and repeated his success at Indianapolis this year.

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