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Video: Watch Scott Dixon’s terrifying Indy 500 crash

IndyCar driver Scott Dixon’s car collided with the car of Jay Howard and went airborne into a retaining wall along the infield.

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A frightening crash sent pole-sitter Scott Dixon’s car airborne and on to a retaining wall during the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday but Dixon was not seriously hurt.

The crash started when Jay Howard lost control on lap 53 of the 200-lap race and Dixon slammed into him at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Dixon’s car then flew into the air and crashed on top of an inside retaining wall, tearing the car apart. But the tub containing Dixon remained intact and he walked away from the crash. Howard also was not hurt.

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“A little bit beaten up,” Dixon said in a television interview following the crash. “Glad everybody was OK. Definitely a wild ride.”

As Dixon’s car was in the air, Helio Castroneves’ car drove under him.

“I saw they were flying, I ducked, I closed my eyes,” Castroneves said.

“When I opened [them], I was in the grass” and Castroneves’ car had a damaged front wing, said Castroneves, who eventually finished a close second behind winner Takuma Sato.

The race was stopped for 18 minutes under a red flag so that track workers could repair part of the safety fencing that was ripped open by the impact of Dixon’s car.

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Dixon is a four-time champion of the Verizon IndyCar Series and the New Zealander won the Indy 500 in 2008.


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3:55 p.m.: This article has been updated with additional details and quotes.

This article was originally published at 10:25 a.m.

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