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Indy has been and always will be a dangerous place... With that said, some of the layout of the barriers due to the road course are needlessly dangerous. Hope they do something with that.

Great Lights race and good to hear he's OK, broken wrist aside.

...Indy seems to have more money than sense so ... they could just dig up the road course

While it looked dangerous the driver only broke his wrist and that was mostly because he didn't take his hands of the steering wheel. If it wasn't for that he would simply get out of the wreck.

I agree with the majority that the situation with the edge of the barrier was overlooked, but I also firmly believe that cannot plan for every eventuality. While the barrier was dangerous in this exact type of incident and impact, the driver should be held accountable for the injury for not doing the sensible thing and taking his hands off the wheel.

Then the simple answer is you give one or two of the drivers the plans and say "find the problems", even a monkey could find a problem with a wall having a 90 degree angle in it mere meters from cars running 230mph.

They have the same issue on the exit of turn 2, although that might only be a 45 degree angle, there's probably a far greater chance of someone reaching it than the turn 1 wall, and someone will, might not be tomorrow, but they will.

Authorities said an argument preceded the shooting death of a 25-year-old Indiana man who was camping in a parking lot near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. One person is in custody. Max Levine, 25, of Kokomo, was shot early Saturday morning in Coke Lot 1C, Speedway Police Lt. Trent Theobald said in a news release. He told The Indianapolis Star that there was a verbal altercation before the shooting. Police did not provide further information about the person in custody. The Coke Lot is a popular spot across the street from the speedway, where Indy 500 race fans have set up tents and partied on race weekend for decades.

Indiana State Police Sgt. Brian Olehy said the race weekend incident is unusual, but it isn't the first shooting. In 2012, a fan was hospitalized after he was shot in the chest after an apparent altercation across from the speedway. Levine's death was the first violent death on race weekend in Theobald's 16 years with the Speedway Police Department, he told the newspaper, adding that fights were common on race weekend.

Completely agree.

I wonder whether it's similar to the Airline Industry mentality, it'll cost us less in compensation for the one time it does happen than it will to start from scratch and fix it properly, with the possibility that the original issue, may never happen (although the pitwall should be the most obvious of obvious in the history of obvious).

I know I've got a founding members badges for the "don't fix what isn't broke" and the "motor racing is too safe" clubs, but sometimes the solution is so simple it seems inexplicitly stupid not to do it.

I mean, you've got the biggest sporting event in the Western World being broadcasted live in 60 countries (iirc), potentially billions of tv viewers, and for the sake of saving the cost of a fence, you're prepared to risk showing someone be sliced into little pieces by a flying car? Just seems a silly risk to me for the cost that it would be to make it a non-issue.