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The 2011 IndyCar Series review

The 2011 IndyCar season was overshadowed by the death of Dan Wheldon at the Las Vegas season finale, but prior to that, the battle for supremacy between Dario Franchitti and Will Power had raged, on and off the track, as Charles Bradley explains

Charles Bradley Dec 13, 2011, 11:45 AM

The 2011 IndyCar Series was a fascinating one, right up until lap 11 of its season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway when Dan Wheldon lost his life doing what he loved and did best: racing hard.

The tragic ending will serve to define the season in years to come, as US open-wheel racing lost one of its most gifted oval racing talents and well-loved personalities, yet perhaps we should remember Wheldon for his incredible against-the-odds Indianapolis 500 success in May rather than the horrible accident that claimed him.

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Author Charles Bradley

Charles Bradley is Motorsport.com’s Global Editor in Chief. After spending five years in the aerospace industry in his native North Wales, while working weekends as a freelance writer at racetracks around the UK, Charles joined the staff of Motoring News in the heart of London. He transferred to the nascent Autosport.com team in 2000 before transitioning to the magazine, becoming its Editor between 2011 and 2014. Charles then upped sticks to work in America, as Motorsport.com’s Editor in Chief, where he created the multi-national and multi-lingual editorial team that quickly became the world’s most-read motorsport website. He was instrumental in delivering three of the biggest Global F1 Fan Surveys in sports history and is also a multiple award-winning scriptwriter. Charles is an overseas member of the Guild of Motoring Writers. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife Helen – and a cat that’s named after Serbia’s top football club.