---
title: "Can IndyCar Make Racing Safer?"
description: "For answers, we go straight to the source: Scott Dixon, four-time IndyCar Champion."
date: "2016-04-12"
modified: "2016-04-12"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/video/2975/can-indycar-make-racing-safer"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "indycar"
  - "safety"
  - "Scott Dixon"
---

# Can IndyCar Make Racing Safer?

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Since Ayrton Senna’s death at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994, only one F1 driver has died from injuries sustained during a race weekend. In that same timespan, eight men have been killed behind the wheel of an Indy car, either during practice, qualifying, or a race. That list includes Dan Wheldon, in 2011, and Justin Wilson, who died after crashing at Pocono Raceway just last year. F1 is now testing semi-closed cockpits. IndyCar is not.

But are those design changes the right solution? What else can be done to improve driver safety? For answers, we went straight to the source: Scott Dixon, four-time IndyCar Champion and current driver of the No. 9 Chip Ganassi Racing car. A close friend of both Wheldon and Wilson, see what Dixon has to say about danger, F1, and the future of safety in motorsports.

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