IndyCar: The Worst 10 Wrecks In The DW12 Era
By Asher Fair
No. 2: Texas, 2016
On the outside of Conor Daly coming out of turn four was Josef Newgarden. Daly’s car started to wobble before getting out of control and shooting up the track, straight into Newgarden’s car.
Daly’s car drove Newgarden’s straight into the wall, which flipped it up onto its right side. Both cars went skidding along the track, with Daly’s right side up and Newgarden’s upside down .
With both cars still in contact with each other, Daly’s car once again pushed Newgarden’s car straight into the wall on the front straightaway, this time cockpit-first.
Once both cars came to a stop, both cars were totally destroyed to the point where the insides of both cars were visible to anyone who dared to look.
Newgarden suffered a broken clavicle and a broken wrist in the crash, but he did not miss any races while recovering from those injuries. Daly was uninjured.
No. 1: Fontana, 2015
Coming to the white flag in a pack, Juan Pablo Montoya’s car shifted slightly up the track while on the inside of two other cars. He made slight contact with Ryan Hunter-Reay’s car, which then also slightly shifted up the track.
Hunter-Reay bumped into Sage Karam’s car as a result of it, and then Hunter-Reay spun to the inside of the track, out of control. He collected the car of Ryan Briscoe along the way.
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Both Briscoe and Hunter-Reay were turned backwards and sent spinning side by side until they got to the grass on the inside of the track. Upon the surface change from the paved oval to the grass, the rear of Briscoe’s car got up off of the ground.
Briscoe’s car then got completely airborne and flew through the air before the nose of the car hit the ground and dug into it, sending debris everywhere and sending the car flipping and spinning through the air before landing right side up.
All of the drivers involved in the accident were unharmed.