> >Whilst wre are all upset at the loss of a driver. It seems to me that
> it
> >isn't necessarily the speed that kills. What we need are improved
> safety
> >equipment in the cars, to mke it almost impossible for the driver to
> be
> >hit. F1 iintroduced higher sides to the***pits this year for that
> very
> >reason.
> >Chris Fisher
> I agree, to a point. Work needs to be done to the walls at the super
> speedways. If you hit a solid, unmovable object at 150 MPH, at the
> wrong angle, you can be killed. We need to have energy absorbtion
> walls, that will, along with the cars, absorb a good percentage of the
> energy.
> I have heard of people working on this concept, but we have not seen
> any improvments yet. Maybe soon.
> Mike
I saw a NASCAR Truck race last year that was on a short track that had
problems with people hitting the wall hard (basically, the same type of
problem as with IMS...something about the track made things bad when you
lost the vehicle). What the owner did was get big Styrofoam blocks and
put them in the corner. A truck would lose it, slam into the blocks
(nice explosion of Styrofoam...:-), and take a lot less damage. Clean up
was easy...replace the block, blow the Styrofoam off the track, and the
race continued. You might be able to do something the same although you
might have to increase the track width to handle it (although it would
slow things down since you don't have the room).
Gary.
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