“Artistic IndyCar dude” laughs at Brit’s new teeth

If you’re a regular visitor to Grid Crasher, you will be aware that we are fascinated by Dan Wheldon’s amazing teeth. The Nicey lookalike used to have crap British teeth, but now he’s living in the States, he paid for an awe-inspiring set of new gnashers.

In this clip, Dan speaks to a few IndyCar employees about the forthcoming wedding of Chip Ganassi team-mate Scott Dixon, and ends up getting some stick for his unfeasibly large teeth. Quite right too.

IndyCar pace setter wins third race of season, in Texas

Scott Dixon, winner of this year’s Indy 500, stretched his lead in the IndyCar championship with a split-second victory over Helio Castroneves at the Texas Speedway last weekend.

The picture is deceiving, as both cars were cruising at around 90mph when they crossed the start/finish line - a late crash involving Marco Andretti and Ryan Hunter-Reay meant that the race ended under waved yellow flags; so Castroneves was not allowed to overtake Dixon.

Many disgruntled fans were seen leaving the Texas track even before Dixon took the chequered flag. This is a big problem for IndyCar; the series should not allow its races to finish under a yellow flag - it’s the second time in a week that a late crash has forced an IndyCar race to end like that. Ryan Briscoe won in Milwaukee under the same conditions; on that occasion Dixon was the frustrated driver stuck in second place.