Legge, Wilson undergo first main crash of Indy 500 observe

The shunt occurred with 50 minutes of the two-hour observe session remaining, when Legge (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) and Wilson (Dreyer & Reinbold) made contact at Flip 1, simply after Santino Ferrucci (AJ Foyt Racing) had handed Devlin DeFrancesco’s Andretti Autosport entry on the entrance stretch.

The vehicles appeared to gradual on account of that passing transfer, inflicting a concertina impact, and Legge’s left-front wheel bumped into the right-rear nook of Wilson as he checked up.

The contact brought about each vehicles to spin earlier than they hit the wall, with Legge hitting side-on as Wilson’s went nose-first into the SAFER barrier.

Legge’s automotive, which suffered extreme right-side harm, briefly acquired airborne earlier than touchdown on its stomach and impacting the wall once more at Flip 2.

Legge climbed out of her automotive, however Wilson required help with a again brace being referred to as for.

The AMR security crew took 10 minutes to extract Wilson from his automotive, and though he was stretchered to the ambulance he raised his thumb to the group.

“He’s doing properly,” Dr Julia Vaizer, IndyCar’s director, medical companies instructed NBC Peacock of Wilson’s situation. “He’s being transported to an area hospital for superior imaging and additional analysis however he’s in good spirits.”

Legge, who will begin Sunday’s race from thirtieth on the grid, stated there was nothing she might do to keep away from Wilson, who certified twenty fifth on Saturday.

“The vehicles in entrance had been all checking up, I lifted as a lot as I might and downshifted, hit the brakes nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient as they had been checking up,” stated Legge. “I acquired into the again of Stefan and we each ended up within the wall.

“It’s one other blow to the staff after yesterday, these guys don’t deserve it, it’s not proper.”

The Rahal staff imagine Legge’s automotive might be repaired with out switching chassis, however Wilson’s D&R automotive seemed to be in worse form as a result of severity of the front-end hit.

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