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Post by chernaudi on Apr 24, 2023 4:14:23 GMT -8
If you mean plate/Daytona and Talladega, then yes, but Jerry Nadeau suffered a traumatic brain injury at Richmond in 2003 that was (if I remember correctly) near fatal (or at least quite serious) and lead to him retiring from racing. Not to mention at Kansas in '02 Sterling Marlin suffered a non-life threatening (though maybe career altering) neck injury that sidelined him for the rest of the season. And that's in Cup (Steve Park's TBI was in a Busch race at Darlington, and there's been others outside of Cup).
But aside from that, no one's suffered life threatening injuries in NASCAR's top 3 national touring divisions (though career ending or career shortening can be considered another matter). And NASCAR (and motorsports as a whole largely) has tended to be reactionary rather than proactive in terms of most safety issues. But if you wanna see a car with the side caved in, look at Ted Musgrave's car from Atlanta in '97 when he got drilled in the passenger door in an accident.
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Post by noonesfan18 on Apr 24, 2023 8:06:17 GMT -8
Nadeau admitted on the Dale Jr. download that he removed some headrest padding from his seat before he leave the track for practice that day. In hindsight, he almost killed himself with that move.  This is Jeff Purvis's car after Greg Biffle drilled him in 2002 at Nazareth. Purvis was forced to retire and Biffle had a concussion. |
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Post by chernaudi on Apr 24, 2023 13:00:55 GMT -8
Hard to foresee there an engine failure causing a big wreck (what happened there--Pervis lost an engine, got in his own oil, hit the wall, and Biffle also got in the oil and nailed Pervis). Easy, however, to foresee that a big wreck can happen even at a short track.
Not to mention all the inside walls and openings in walls that didn't have Safer Barriers until Jeff Gordon ended up finding them. Jeff even had a quote about it on the radio after one of those accidents of finding the damnedest places to have crashes.
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Post by mmi16 on Apr 24, 2023 13:30:05 GMT -8
Hard to foresee there an engine failure causing a big wreck (what happened there--Pervis lost an engine, got in his own oil, hit the wall, and Biffle also got in the oil and nailed Pervis). Easy, however, to foresee that a big wreck can happen even at a short track. Not to mention all the inside walls and openings in walls that didn't have Safer Barriers until Jeff Gordon ended up finding them. Jeff even had a quote about it on the radio after one of those accidents of finding the damnedest places to have crashes. Happenings will ALWAYS find the WORST place for the incident to happen. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2023 15:14:21 GMT -8
Did Wallace try to block 3 times?
That's 2 too many.
The TV crew seemed to be falling all over themselves by trying to say Wallace did nothing wrong.
Bullshit.
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Post by noonesfan18 on Apr 24, 2023 18:58:37 GMT -8
^ Yes, he blocked 3 times. I think most sane people can safely say that if you block one more than once you are asking to get crashed. Bubba got his just desserts. Much like Gregson when he attempted to refill the hole that he open for Chastain. Speaking of Chastain, this is the 2nd "incident" this year that he has been put on blast for doing nothing wrong. Richmond was C. Bell running out of talent (and brains) and wrecking Bryon. He then apologized to the wrong guy. This race was Gregson being a dumbass and turning left into Chastain and taking 2 other people with him. Then the man-child sitting on top of the 4 war wagon retweeted the video from Chastain onboard and deleted it afterward. "Boys" have at it."
Yes, I realize Chastain has a reputation that is a resume but this year he hasn't done a damn thing wrong. He is living rent free in everyone's head.
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Post by r60man on Apr 25, 2023 4:44:33 GMT -8
Wallace blocked too many times, but otherwise he is a sitting duck and he is not going to win the race. You hear the driver/commentators say it all the time, they do not want to be in the lead on the last lap, they want to take the lead on the last lap. This is why you get the carnage that you get. You seriously going to tell a race car driver he is not allowed to block cars trying to pass him? You still going to call that racing? This is what is wrong with the plate racing. You simply can not blame a driver for not wanting guys to pass him.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2023 5:55:30 GMT -8
Wallace blocked too many times, but otherwise he is a sitting duck and he is not going to win the race. You hear the driver/commentators say it all the time, they do not want to be in the lead on the last lap, they want to take the lead on the last lap. This is why you get the carnage that you get. You seriously going to tell a race car driver he is not allowed to block cars trying to pass him? You still going to call that racing? This is what is wrong with the plate racing. You simply can not blame a driver for not wanting guys to pass him. I'm pretty sure that F1 only allows 1 blocking move. I could be wrong...
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Post by mmi16 on Apr 25, 2023 14:54:14 GMT -8
^ Yes, he blocked 3 times. I think most sane people can safely say that if you block one more than once you are asking to get crashed. Bubba got his just desserts. Much like Gregson when he attempted to refill the hole that he open for Chastain. Speaking of Chastain, this is the 2nd "incident" this year that he has been put on blast for doing nothing wrong. Richmond was C. Bell running out of talent (and brains) and wrecking Bryon. He then apologized to the wrong guy. This race was Gregson being a dumbass and turning left into Chastain and taking 2 other people with him. Then the man-child sitting on top of the 4 war wagon retweeted the video from Chastain onboard and deleted it afterward. "Boys" have at it."
Yes, I realize Chastain has a reputation that is a resume but this year he hasn't done a damn thing wrong. He is living rent free in everyone's head.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2023 9:23:45 GMT -8
I don't understand why some drivers think everybody is going to slow down just because they swerved in front of the oncoming traffic.
There's a reason why the cars caught up with you, dumb-ass.
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Post by Spin on Apr 26, 2023 11:53:57 GMT -8
Larsony’s car was taken to the NASCAR Tech Center to study the crash damage. It’ll be interesting what updates get mandated. Or what they do to the car weight balances.
And Bubba is still in way over his head. At least he didn’t take out anybody important.
I was told last week that nobody here watched NASCAR anymore. So I hung out on Facebook. Thats an experience…
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2023 12:54:24 GMT -8
Yeah, he's fortunate that impact didn't happen on the drivers side. Facebook?? You mean they aren't happy, well-adjusted people like we are??  |
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