Next year's 'Month of May' IndyCar racing programme will start with a new event on a revamped road course ahead of the official 'Opening Day' for the 98th Indianapolis 500.
An online auction of entertainment and sporting memorabilia has succeeded in raising over $600,000 for the Dan Wheldon Family Trust Fund, organisers revealed on Friday.
Dario Franchitti won his fourth IZOD IndyCar Series Championship in 2011, but it was overshadowed by tragedy at Las Vegas. Only now is the series success sinking in, he says.
'Dan Wheldon's two sons shouldn't have to live with the reality that their father died because he chose a profession in which his life wasn't the number one priority'
Dario Franchitti has set aside questions about whether he might quit the sport after Dan Wheldon's death, and instead is focussing on developing the new 2012 car.
Will Power, one of the drivers sent to hospital after the crash at Las Vegas that claimed the life of Dan Wheldon, had been diagnosed with a compression fracture to his back.
IndyCar staged a public memorial service to celebrate the life and times of Dan Wheldon on Sunday, which included contributions from Dario Franchitti, Tony Kanaan and Bryan Herta.
Family and friends have paid a tearful farewell to Dan Wheldon at a funeral service in his adopted American home town of St Petersburg in Florida on Saturday.
IndyCar worked for months to make the 2011 season finale a fitting climax and affirmation of a series on the way back. No one could know it would end up being its darkest hour.
In the aftermath of the devastating crash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway that claimed the life of Dan Wheldon, three more drivers were also sent to University Medical Center.
Tony Kanaan took pole position for Sunday's IZOD IndyCar World Championship 2011 season finale, while championship rivals Will Power and Dario Franchitti start side-by-side mid-pack.
Dan Wheldon has signed up to help develop a new generation of online gaming software that will deliver highly accurate and realistic simulator-grade racing competition.
X Games superstar daredevil Travis Pastrana has confirmed that he's making a bid for one of the five 'guest' spots in the season finale in Las Vegas - and a shot at the $5m jackpot.
Indy 500 winners Dan Wheldon and Bryan Herta Autosport have been confirmed as the official testers of the new IndyCar 2012 chassis prototype, it has been confirmed.
Recovering from a desperately poor qualifying performance at Indy, Andretti Autosport has snapped up the engineer who put Alex Tagliani on pole - angering Sam Schmidt.
Dan Wheldon might be unemployed after his Indy 500 victory on Sunday, but he's not going to be short of cash for the foreseeable future - after pocketing $2.5m for the day's work.