I feel like I should say something about Dan Wheldon, but I don’t know what.
When I was a little kid, I was a big racing fan; I especially enjoyed watching the Indy 500. I still have a closet fondness for NASCAR: open-wheel racing kind of lost me with the whole CART/IndyCar debacle. But this is still just shocking and awful.
Surprising thing, though: the FARK threads have been more respectful than you’d think (this being FARK and all).