Dan Wheldon crash: IndyCar revises team members in probe

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The Izod IndyCar Series on Wednesday revised its information about the team investigating the death of driver Dan Wheldon from injuries in a 15-car crash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The series initially said Tuesday that the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the governing body for Formula One racing, and the Automobile Competition Committee of the United States, an umbrella organization of racing sanctioning bodies, would assist in its probe of Sunday’s accident.

But “it was incorrect to state that either ACCUS or FIA are formally involved,” IndyCar said without explanation in a revised statement. It added, however, that “individual members of various motorsports bodies” would help in the investigation.

IndyCar reiterated that it hoped to report preliminary findings about the crash “within the next several weeks.”

A public memorial for Wheldon, who was 33 and a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, is scheduled Sunday in Indianapolis.

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