I just hope and pray the lawyers don't get involved and they let the car builders and seatbelt manufactures figure out what really went wrong. NASCAR and the "Good ol boy" are plenty talented to solv
I Hear that! Another list already mentioned lawsuit - what a crock - who the heck will benefit from that - OH silly me the ATTORNEYS will!!! Let Dale rest and let the sport continue it pursuit of saf
Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else smell a scapegoat?!?! Lets see NASCAR could come out and admit that Dale's death might have been prevented if he had been wearing a HANS device, or if those h
Since the initial announcement was that he died of "chest injuries", (the skull fracture wasn't publicized until well after the 1st reports) my thought was that he might of loosened his belts during
I agree. Belts don't rip. If you put enough force to that belt to rip it, it would cut the driver in half first. Nascar is just covering their butt. Mark
Unless it had something wrong with it in the first place. I'm sure they'd do that regardless, but the crash didn't look severe enough to me to cause a fatality. The nose of the car was not crushed th
it, Jay replied: Bingo. to me to cause a fatality. I've been saying that ever since I first saw the film. Non-racers around my office keep jabbering about how he crashed into a wall at 180, as if his
<<The NASCAR spin may be somewhere between truth and fiction. Why are we hearing about this today, almost a week after? This would have been immediately noticed.>> maybe none of the dozen people in o
The article is quite sad. The attitiude of NASCAR("You can't tell us nuttin' we already don't know because you ain't one of us.") represents a horrible stereotype of folks from the South. I like to t
Dear Ron, Ken, "Knuckle Dragger", Judy and (of course) KATIE! Fear not, fellow eccentrics! I still have a garage full of antique British Steel (And Al-YEW-min-e-um) to tinker with. And, Judy, I'm bac
Can't belts rip if they are stretched across some relatively sharp edge? I know they can. I've seen 3" cargo belts on ratchet straps cut clean in half by nothing sharper than the metal edge of an ATA
I find it sad that folks feel free to completely believe some unknown motor sports writer without question, but can't seem to find a way to give the sanctioning body at least some benefit of the dou
I'm in partial agreement with that. Nonetheless, it's undeniable that F1 and CART have made major strides in driver safety, while NASCAR - which not long ago was statistically the "safest" major form
Rant on: I too would hope that NASCAR is only putting this on the face of the safety topic and are *truly* doing things behind the scenes to improve safety. However, I firmly believe this is Not the
travelling medical team, whereas F1 and CART do (complete with mobile treatment centers), the major car manufacturers and sponsors have been willing to fund safety research in NASCAR for some time,
I first saw this article in the Orlando Sentinel. Ed Hinton, the writer, has been covering motorsports for years. He has the distinction of having his Indianapolis Motor Speedway credentials yanked
When you state "NASCAR has no travelling medical team" you're (I assume) definately stating a fact. What you haven't done is show that not having a travelling medical team is any less safe. Just out