GM leader Mark Reuss shunted the Chevrolet Corvette on the parade lap for the second IndyCar race at the Detroit Grand Prix, bringing the field of racecars to a halt. Reuss, the executive VP of global product development, lost control under power and over the crest on the exit of Turn 2 of the Belle Isle track. Tracking behind the two-seater IndyCar, the Corvette nosed hard into the concrete retaining wall, and the field of 23 racecars came to a halt. Within seconds, Reuss’s Wikipedia page had been hacked, adding to his job title “and a professional pace car crasher.” Once the debris had been cleared – and only polesitter Alexander Rossi had run through some of it – the cars were...
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