Dario Franchitti, the IndyCar driver who wrote a guest blog on Boston.com this season, issued the a statement following the death of fellow driver Dan Wheldon on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
“We lost a good friend. Everybody in the IndyCar Series considered Dan a friend. He was one of those special, special people from the first moment he showed up in IndyCar. And he was kind of brash, but he was a charmer. Then he became this loving family guy who was still charming, but he had this whole new side to him. I'm just thinking of Susie and the boys. When I think about them I'm struggling to hold it together."
