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How slow should he have been going? Even at the 70mph pace speed, losing a tire randomly and hitting a jet dryer would have had the same results. Like Steve Park's accident at Dover 10 years ago, you just can't protect against that kind of random occurrence.

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How slow should he have been going? Even at the 70mph pace speed, losing a tire randomly and hitting a jet dryer would have had the same results. Like Steve Park's accident at Dover 10 years ago, you just can't protect against that kind of random occurrence.

Yep, Darlington, not Dover... but yeah, the only other thing that can really come out of this is a physical change in safety on the cars themselves (or in this case, jet dryers). Not sure what the hell you could do, though. That's a crap-ton of fuel you can't really make "non-flammable" at the flick of a switch, or something.

Freak accidents can happen in this sport, and Juan did nothing wrong, or out of the ordinary, same as Larry Foyt in 2001.

I don't see how anyone can blame Juan for that. You have to go faster than pace speed to catch up to the field and NASCAR circulates the jet dryers to clean any debris/marbles/trash off the racing surface. The only thing that realistically could have been done differently is to not send the jet dryers out while the cars are circulating around the track, even under caution. Juan came out of the pits, had to catch the field, he probably was feeling the car out to see if the crew had fixed it and then it just suddenly locked up. He may have slowed down as he approached the jet dryers or not, it's really hard to tell from any of the shots FOX had how fast he was really going. You can't tell very well when a car is coming straight at you how fast it is going.

I just don't think he was anywhere close to pace speed and almost double that when the thing failed on his car but w/e, just an observation I felt I had to bring up.

I just don't think he was anywhere close to pace speed and almost double that when he passed the first jet dryer but w/e, just an observation I felt I had to bring up.

All of this "he was going too fast through the safety zone" and "this race sucked" blah blah blah is complete nonsense. Half of this thread is populated with posts from people who either don't remember or have never seen a plate race from 15 years ago. Through much of NASCAR's own idiocy these new fans have been brainwashed into thinking that if it's not 2 or 3 wide all race long with a flipping car and last lap pass then the race sucked. That my friends is garbage. This Daytona 500 was no different than any 500 in the mid 90's and there is nothing wrong with that or the racing.

As for any bitching or criticism of Juan goes, anybody doing so has clearly no grasp on how these races work and have worked since NASCAR began. You always hustle to get back around and the majority of the time the safety trucks are all over the track.

I've been watching this shit for the last 20+ years. Go back and take a history lesson.

Monty's car being taken apart.

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Should've sent that thing to a museum, or display it in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.