Canopy-less IndyCars narrowly avoid another Wheldon tragedy

UPDATE

Castroneves has to take evasive action to avoid wheel hitting him in the head

Conway goes head first into the catch fencing

IndyCar/LAT USA

Added photo of near misses that could have had tragic results.

05/27/12
When Mike Conway got up into the catch fencing when he spun on lap 80 of the Indy 500 visions of Dan Wheldon ran through our head. Conway was head first into the catch fencing and riding along it, his head just missing the poles. Meanwhile a wheel from Mike Conway's car went bounding down the track and would have hit Helio Castroneves square in the face (perhaps with fatal results) had he not taken evasive action.

And still IndyCar refuses to consider canopies over the drivers head. We understand tradition, but they are called open wheel cars guys, not open cockpit cars.