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Robert Wickens vows to return to IndyCar after crash injuries

INDIANAPOLIS -- IndyCar driver Robert Wickens has vowed to return to a race car following injuries in a crash at Pocono Raceway.

Wickens posted to social media from his bed in an Indianapolis rehabilitation center. The Canadian is wearing braces around his neck and torso, and a cast on his right wrist.

Wickens' car sailed into the fence at Pocono on Aug. 19 and he suffered a thoracic spinal fracture, spinal cord injury, neck fracture, tibia and fibula fractures to both legs, fractures in both hands, a fractured right forearm, a fractured elbow, four fractured ribs and a pulmonary contusion.