Remembering Dan Wheldon
Oct 14, 2021
3 minutes
DAVID MALSHER-LOPEZ
Once upon a time, I reckoned Dan Wheldon was superficial, a pretty boy who found racing and winning came too easy because he was driving for a top team in the Indy Racing League. His winsome, cheeky smile, his bonhomie with TV cameramen and interviewers, his tendency to say only the right things in public, the kidding around with team-mates… From a distance, it all came across as somewhat forced and artificial.
And then I met him. Turns out I had been the superficial one, because I’d been
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