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Re: NASCAR officials say Earnhardt's belt ripped

To: <Markdaddio@aol.com>, <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: NASCAR officials say Earnhardt's belt ripped
From: "Jay Mitchell" <jemitchell@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:40:25 -0600
Mark wrote:

>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.

Unless it had something wrong with it in the first place.

>Nascar is just covering their butt.

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 the way it's been 
in past severe crashes. When I first saw the footage, I couldn't believe it had 
killed Dale. I'm not claiming to be an expert on this, but so far I can believe 
that there could have been something wrong with the lap belt.

Jay

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