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I'm not jumping on them for being consistent, I'm saying that previous inconsistencies caused this situation.

If they do away with the yellow line rule, the best thing to do is to not dick around and take it away completely. If they were to say "you can pass here and here, but not here", then you're just getting into a whole other situation where NASCAR can pretty much lose every time.

The reason it came about in the first place was because of the constant threat of big ones. One might say it came about because of Dale Earnhardt's death, but that's not the case at all, since they were in the middle of the corner, and the same thing happened there that happened to Carl yesterday. My point is that no matter the rules, drivers will still find a way to make a mistake (they are human, after all) and cause massive wrecks like the ones we saw yesterday. Put them in a limited playing field, and a driver's ability to avoid causing that kind of thing goes out the window (unless they want to sacrifice hard-charging, go for the win racing, which isn't what NASCAR is about).

Unless we go to no plates, I don't see this being remedied. Smaller plates will do jack squat.

Oh, and another thing.... maybe Regan Smith should have dumped Tony Stewart last fall, maybe this would be remedied by now.

Bingo. I really don't see any reason why they can't get rid of the first 10 rows of the front stretch grandstand. The place wasn't sold out by a long shot, but that doesn't really matter.

The only other thing, everyone knows the danger when you go to a race track, be it driver, fan, official, whatever. On the back of the tickets it says (or at least it used to say) the track is not responsible if you're injured or killed while in attendance at the race. Racing is dangerous for everyone. The bottom line is that there isn't anything that can be changed without destroying the racing. These sort of wrecks happen at the big tracks. They always have and they always will...

A view from the grandstands:
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He actually meant the design of the fence, not how many times it was hit at Talladega

There was no fence in the turns when Horton cleared the track in '93,just a wall.


On a lighter note,saw the Fox 3D,er NASCAR RaceView version of the incident

Looks like an online server on an EA game with some serious warp.

Amazing crash recreation.

Lol

Those who just skipped to the crash, rewatch it and see what happens at 0:49. It's amazing.

Gangsta Newman

no airbornez, fake.

That video from the stands is amazing! Can you believe how fast that car flew past them into the fence a few 100 yards away? Imagine if your right there behind the fence you have ZERO time to react or move.

And the way it flies through the view is just something. Looked even more scary on that than on TV POV.

I just heard on This Week in NASCAR, that the great CHAD KNAUS thinks it would be great to put a chicane on the backstretch. Like that would help.

wtf

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlin ... dlines/cup



Like that will work

Great so now next time this rolls around the driver holding his line will get penalized.


Srspost: NASCAR is possible the most incompetent sanctioning body in all of sports. Even worse than the IRL

Reading stuff from all over the internet, I'm surprised that most bloggers are blaming restrictor plate racing as a whole, and some are even claiming to abolish the practice altogether, pointing to LeMans '55 - As if that's an ethical decision. But I'll leave that until I can come up with something to debunk it.

But here's something I can debunk - Ryan Newman was quoted as saying that NASCAR should take another look at ways to keep cars on the ground because of the fact that cars flipped two days in a row, and he even said that the CoT is more susceptible to catching air - That's absurd. It's been seen in a ton of instances that the CoT can't catch air in a per se ''normal'' spin.

Judging from Elliott Sadler's airborne wreck at Daytona in the Bud Shootout, the CoT has to be spun at least 180 degrees around before air can pick the car up. And even so, it sets down quickly - Unless it gets a huge assist.



As for Kenseth's flip, that was under entirely different circumstances - Weight shift. Any car would flip in that instance. Roof flaps, side skirts, it would still flip. Ryan should know this - He's an engineer, for Christ's sakes!

In all honesty, I really think Newman is just picking at straws to lessen restrictor plate racing or get rid of it entirely - If he watched the replays, he should know damn well what happened in those instances. And hell, I'm befuddled as to just why drivers are whining so much about Talladega - They never used to. If you're that scared of crashing and burning, you need to get your priorities straight.

QFT