Australian Will Power, injured in the fiery crash that killed Dan Wheldon in the IndyCar season finale, has been cleared to return to racing and should get back on track this week for two days of testing his new 2012 IndyCar at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama.
Power received two fractures in his thoracic vertebrae on October 16 when a catastrophic 15 car crash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway killed two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon.
It was the second time Power has broken his back in an IndyCar wreck but said that although the Las Vegas circuit was seriously unsafe for the IndyCar open-wheeler racing, he still believed the formula “can be fixed”.
The revised 2012 IndyCar chassis contains alterations designed to address the downforce, horsepower and pack racing safety concerns, by including greater aerodynamic downforce to slow cars, bigger cockpits for better driver protection and bodywork over the rear wheels to prevent cars from becoming airborne.