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Rosenqvist evaluated after multicar Pocono crash

IndyCar driver Felix Rosenqvist has been taken for further evaluation following a big crash on the first lap of Sunday's race at Pocono.

Takuma Sato trigged a dangerous wreck when he tried to dart through an opening on a three-wide start to the race and took out Ryan Hunter-Reay, James Hinchcliffe, Felix Rosenqvist and

Rosenqvist's car dragged on its rear wheels against the wall before settling back on the track. IndyCar tweeted that he had been sent to a local trauma center for further evaluation with non-life-threatening injuries.

The incident had an eerily similar look to an accident early in last year's Pocono race that paralyzed driver Robert Wickens.