Dan Wheldon, Scott Dixon and Sam Hornish, Jr. A podium finish for Hornish -- our man Wert's fast-driving doppelg nger -- not to mention a championship for the Indianapolis 500-mile champ and his boss Roger Penske. Congrats to Sam and Roger, not to mention more incentive for Ray to walk around the Detroit Metro area in a Marlboro-emblazoned firesuit.
Oh, also, Michael Schumacher announced his end-of-season retirement today, but we figured you probably already knew that.
[SO. DAMN.
INDY.]
Listen, we feel really bad for Chicagoland doctor Lanny Wilson. He lost his 14-year-old daughter to a Metra train collision while his son was trying to get her to a rehearsal on time and ignored the lights.
And now he's campaigning to have the scene in Cars where Lightning McQueen just barely beats a train across the tracks deleted from the DVD release. From the Chicago Tribune:
"It's a red car approaching the railroad crossing and I thought, 'Oh no, please don't do what I think you're going to do,'" said Wilson, noting that the car Luke was driving also was red."
So what's next, Dr.
Wilson? Suing Owen Wilson for taking a role in which he plays a cartoon car that jumps a set of tracks in front of a cartoon train and has a brother named Luke? Seriously, man.
We're genuinely sorry for your trauma, and we're glad that you've used it to promote positive safety measures. But jeez..
.just let this one go.
We reported on the Chicagoland commuter train that whacked a dozen cars at a crossing.
Initial reports said that the gates hadn't closed, but this apparently doesn't seem to be the case. Apparently, the cars struck by the train were caught in traffic from the time the signals go off, drivers have 54 seconds to clear the tracks before the train crosses, but due to a rush-hour snarl, the vehicles had nowhere to go. When the engineer noticed the cars stopped on the tracks, he applied the e-brake, but the inertia of the train was simply too much the train only slowed 5mph before it plowed into the stranded cars, injuring sixteen.
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