http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=1&id=2384873ESPN has shown replays of the crash that happened around 10:30 this morning and it was an absolutely devastating crash. Dana was actually a journalist who had covered racing for SI and Maxim and was living his dream this year by getting behind the wheel and racing.
This is one reason I don't watch racing.
Paul Dana died from injuries suffered in a horrific practice crash at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday.
Ed Carpenter had lesser injuries Sunday morning, the result of the two-car crash during the warmup for the season-opening IRL IndyCar Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The race will start as scheduled, officials announced.
Carpenter, the stepson of Indy Racing League founder Tony George, spun his Vision Racing car exiting Turn 2 of the 1.5- mile Homestead-Miami Speedway oval and hugged the outside wall before slowly creeping back onto the racing surface. It was nearly stopped when it was hit in the left-rear corner at nearly full speed by a car driven by Paul Dana, a 30-year old rookie driving for Rahal Letterman Racing.
Dana, a former motorsports journalist with a degree from Northwestern, started three IndyCar Series races in 2005 for Hemelgarn Racing before breaking his back in a practice crash at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Dana qualified a career-best ninth for Sunday's race, which would have been his first with the Rahal Letterman team.
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