Indy driver Dan Wheldon stalls car because of phone call
A. Isaac 
Around the country, laws are being introduced to prevent people from talking or texting on their cells while operating a vehicle. Most experienced drivers will tell you that this type of law is not needed for them because they have no trouble focusing on the task at hand while also mindlessly chatting away with friends.
Well I’m not sure how experienced Dan Wheldon of Indy car fame is, but it’s a good bet he’s driven a few more miles than the rest of us. He is however, still susceptible to driver stupidity.
ABC was televising the race and the colour analyst, our own Scott Goodyear, had put in a radio call to driver Dan Wheldon, whom he identified as the network’s “in-car reporter.”
So Goodyear and Wheldon were chatting away when Wheldon suddenly stopped talking.
“He’s stalled the car,” said Goodyear.
The field pulled out of the pits at this point and left poor Wheldon sitting there. It took between 30 seconds and a minute for Wheldon and the crew of the U.S. National Guard-sponsored car to fire it up and send poor Dan off to catch the rest of the 27-car starting lineup before the start.
Dan Wheldon’s gaffe aside, this would serve as a wonderful PSA on cell-phone driving. In fact, I know the perfect driver to star in it, Danica Patrick. What better way to say, “you suck at driving” than putting the face of underachieving professional racers on your commercial.
Indy driver stalls car while talking on the ‘phone’ {Toronto Star}
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