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IndyCar’s Wickens suffers

‘orthopedic injuries’ in crash

By DAN GELSTON
AP Sports Writer
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — In-
dyCar driver Robert Wick-
ens has been admitted to
a hospital in nearby Allen-
town with what the series
called “orthopedic injuries”
sustained in a violent wreck
Seattle Storm’s Breanna Stewart brings the ball up against
the New York Liberty during the second half of a WNBA early in the race Sunday.
basketball game Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, in Seattle. The Storm IndyCar said Wickens was
won 85-77. awake and alert as he was
Associated Press airlifted from the track to
Top-seeded Storm the hospital and he was still
being evaluated Sunday
beat Wings 84-68 in night. Robert Wickens prepares to qualify for Sunday’s IndyCar series
The 29-year-old Canadian
auto race, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018, in Long Pond, Pa.
driver was attempting to
Associated Press
regular-season finale pass Ryan Hunter-Reay Sunday’s wreck. Hinch- 80 feet of fence and a few
cliff seemed to be in pain, posts were damaged in the
when the two cars slight-
SEATTLE (AP) — Breanna Stewart and Crystal Lang- ly touched. That caused grabbing his wrists as he wreck. Bourdais raised con-
horne had 15 points each to help the Seattle Storm Hunter-Reay’s car to ca- slowly left his car. Hinchcliff cerns about the quality of
beat the Dallas Wings 84-68 in the regular-season fi- reen into the wall and was cleared and released the repairs and condition
nale for both teams Sunday. Wickens’ car was pulled from the medical center. of the fence before he got
Sue Bird sat out the game and Stewart played just 13 along for the ride. Once He declined to comment back in the car.
minutes in the game that had no effect on the Storm’s Wickens’ car soared over to reporters out of respect “It may not be the pretti-
No. 1 playoff seed. Hunter-Reay’s and hit the for Wickens. est job but it’s going to be
Seattle (26-8) closed the season winning eight of fence, it spun round and “That’s the worst thing you safe,” May said.
the last nine and will begin the playoffs in the semifi- round like a top. can see. He’s hurt. He’s Bourdais said the repairs
nals with byes through the first two single-elimination The fencing was shredded awake and alert and at were “pretty lousy.”
rounds and home-court advantage throughout. and Wickens’ car was re- least he’s alive,” driver Se- Hinchcliffe is a team team-
The Storm pulled away in the second quarter with an duced to just the tub, which bastien Bourdais said. mate of Wickens on the
18-5 run to lead 41-24. Dallas (15-19) cut it to 61-50 ear- came to a rest on the track The race was delayed all-Canadian team. The
ly in the third quarter before Seattle built to its largest along an interior wall. nearly two hours and only two raced each other as
lead at 79-54 at the end of the period. Medical workers calmly at- eight laps in the 500-mile youngsters in Toronto and
Glory Johnson led the Wings with 16 points. Liz Cam- tended to Wickens, who race had been completed Hinchcliffe, runner-up on
bage added 11 points, and Azura Stevens had 10. was taken to an ambu- because of Wickens’ crash ABC’s “Dancing With The
ATLANTA 93, LAS VEGAS 78 lance before he was trans- and another accident right Stars” in 2017, helped lure
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Elizabeth Williams scored 20 points ported to the helicopter. before green. Graham Ra- Wickens to IndyCar this
and the Atlanta Dream beat the Las Vegas Aces 93- The impact of the wreck hal got into the back of season after a successful
78 on Sunday to take the No. 2 seed in the WNBA play- tore out a large section of Spencer Pigot before the career in Europe.
offs. The Dream (23-11) have byes through the first two fencing that needed al- race even got to green. The crash was a grim re-
single-elimination rounds, and will have home-court most two hours to repair. Pigot spun and hit the wall. minder how drivers in open-
advantage in the best-of-five semifinals. Alexander Rossi won the “We can only hope one wheel racing put their lives
The Aces (14-20) cut it to 83-78 before Renee Mont- race and said it was “tough thing, that Robbie, Hinch on the line.
gomery hit back-to-back 3-pointers and Atlanta to celebrate” with Wickens and everyone involved is Hinchcliffe survived his own
closed on a 10-0 run. in the hospital. ok,” Rahal tweeted dur- life-threatening injury when
The Dream erased a 47-41 halftime deficit with an 8-2 In 2015 at Pocono, Justin ing the delay. “These are a broken part from his car
run to open the third quarter and took the lead for Wilson died from a head the dangers we face, but pierced an artery during a
good at 61-60 with 40.3 seconds left in the period. injury when a piece of de- we always hate to see it. 2015 crash at Indianapolis
Jessica Breland and Montgomery added 16 points bris from a crashed car The start can be debated Motor Speedway. Hinch-
each for Atlanta, Alex Bentley had 12, and Tiffany bounced off the track and for years, but doesn’t mat- cliffe would have bled to
Hayes 11. hit his helmet. ter right now, focus on the death if not for the medi-
A’ja Wilson had 21 points, and Dearica Hamby added Hunter-Reay, James Hinch- well-being of our friends cal team holding the artery
14 for Las Vegas. The Aces finished one position out of cliffe, Pietro Fittipaldi and and competitors.” together as it raced him
the playoffs.q Takuma Sato were among Pocono Raceway presi- from the track directly to a
the drivers collected in dent Ben May said about hospital.q