{"id":22,"date":"2013-10-06T18:15:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T22:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/indycar\/?p=22"},"modified":"2013-10-06T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T03:27:12","slug":"dario-franchitti-alert-following-crash-at-grand-prix-of-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/2013\/10\/06\/dario-franchitti-alert-following-crash-at-grand-prix-of-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Dario Franchitti breaks back following crash at Grand Prix of Houston (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23\" alt=\"dariofranchitti\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/indycar\/files\/2013\/10\/dariofranchitti.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2013\/10\/dariofranchitti.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2013\/10\/dariofranchitti-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>IZOD IndyCar Series driver Dario Franchitti\u00a0broke two vertebrae, fractured his right ankle and suffered a concussion on Sunday&#8217;s running of the Grand Prix of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Franchitti will not require any spinal surgery following a crash that occurred when he made contact with Takuma Sato and E.J. Viso on the final lap of the second race at Houston.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PfdEpYyuJpo\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The four time series champion and three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 is currently eighth in the IndyCar standings heading to the final race of the season at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA.<\/p>\n<p>Sato and Viso were evaluated on the scene and released. There were 13 spectators injured during the incident. No details have been released about their conditions yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IZOD IndyCar Series driver Dario Franchitti\u00a0broke two vertebrae, fractured his right ankle and suffered a concussion on Sunday&#8217;s running of the Grand Prix of Houston. Franchitti will not require any spinal surgery following a crash that occurred when he made contact with Takuma Sato and E.J. Viso on the final lap of the second race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-22","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-indycar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}