🗣️'I never thought that would be my legacy. But if that's what it is, I think it'd be a pretty cool thing.' robertwickens says his dream of becoming the first disabled driver to race in the Indianapolis 500 depends on finding the necessary finance ⬇️
Wickens, 33, suffered a severe spinal cord injury in an IndyCar crash at Pocono in 2018. He returned to racing last season in the IMSA Challenge series with Hyundai’s factory-backed Bryan Herta Autosport team.
“I never thought that would be my legacy. But if that's what it is, I think it'd be a pretty cool thing to do. And it'd be great for spinal cord awareness. But it was the plateauing of his neurological recovery from the spinal cord injury that has limited his muscle function in his lower extremities. He now uses a wheelchair in his everyday life, although he can stand with some support.
“From there, we can evaluate if the Indy 500 is a possibility, or maybe I get my closure in that and maybe it's just not possible, and then we go our separate ways, and I start focusing on IMSA and other categories.” His team boss Herta, a two-time winner of the Indy 500 as a team owner, is right behind Wickens’ plan to return to IndyCars. He believes it is possible, but will take some time to figure out from a technical standpoint.
“We're talking about developing technologies that haven't existed, or have never been used in that type of application. And it's not something you can rush. So, the short answer is we don't know.”
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