LONG POND, Pa. — The fading of the helicopter blades revealed how unsettlingly quiet Pocono Raceway had become just minutes after the end of the Verizon IndyCar Series race Sunday.
Ryan Hunter-Reay had won, and a muted celebration would begin in victory lane. Even he and his team seemed to struggle to care too much, though. Team owner Michael Andretti said something to the former series champion and left for Lehigh Valley Health Network Cedar Crest Hospital in Allentown, Pa., where that helicopter was carrying one of Hunter-Reay’s teammates.
Justin Wilson is popular, affable and bright, and the details of his head injury suffered when he was struck by debris that had reached Hunter-Reay at that point — “All I know is that he was unconscious.