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Just flipping channels and I see a fireball at the Daytona 500. Turns out in Nascar it's quite alright to run close to race speeds when safety vehicles are on the track, hence when JPM's car broke he slid sideways into the track dryer being driven very slowly on the top of the track. So Nascar fans, please explain to me how the rules work that allow a driver to pass safety vehicles at 150mph. Insanity.
What pisses me off even more is that everyone they talk to on the race team is whining about how it's such a shame because they had such a great race car blah blah. Little mention of concern for the driver of the safety vehicle.
What pisses me off even more is that everyone they talk to on the race team is whining about how it's such a shame because they had such a great race car blah blah. Little mention of concern for the driver of the safety vehicle.
Jason Weigandt pretty much summed it up with his comments
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I doubt he was going 150 either, and he was all the way down at the yellow stripe.
It was a freak deal.
Anyone?
In F1, on the other hand, the cars are the stars . The Ferrari prancing horse dominates the stands, and the drivers are for the most part interchangable. Bernie & Co back that policy by paying huge bonuses to the manufacturer's championship, leaving the driver's title as basically window dressing.
F1 is also the only motorized sport where qualifying is actually as exciting, if not more so, than the actual race. In 2011 there were only 804 total "overtaking maneuvers" (that didn't result in an accident). Talladega alone had 47 lead changes, and likely over 800 total passes. So each form of racing has its set of challenges.
Pit Row
While JPM may not have been going 150 mph, he was close. He said in an interview that he was in 4th gear and accelerating, which can easily be 150mph. And have you noticed that every time the showed the crash they showed it slowed down?
I don't care what anyone says, allowing race cars to "race" to catch up with the field while track workers are on the track is ludicrous and incredibly dangerous. I hope they use this incident to effect a rule change.
With all the equipment and kitty litter on board 75 MPH is flying in those trucks. As we entered 3, I saw Kenseth coming, and before I could blink, he was by us. Buck 50 easy. That was when they were allowing workers to ride in the backs of trucks, and it scared the hell out of me.
A couple of seconds later, Dave from race control comes on the radio and says "Spotter, there are 3 pedals in those cars and I want you to tell the #17 to mash on the middle one".
The point of all this? NASCAR does care about safety, and have rules about catch-up speed. We may see these rules tightenen after last week.
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