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Morgan Vincent Wooten

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Bad luck, and having corners with high angles of impact.

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I would imagine they are hitting the wall too hard.

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tHE QUESTION IS. What can NASCAR do about it. The track was pretty boring if
you ask me. IMO
Get rid of thye bloddy track. 2 Deaths in 2 months is pretty Dumb. The Speedway
needs to do something. then NASCAR can come back. (what i think)

They could also bank it up like Bristol. ( a bit less than Bristol perhaps)
All that would be expensive, but NASCAR will have to mandate it.

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Shortly after Joe Nemecheck's brother lost his life practicing for a
Craftsman truck race at Homestead, Florida, where he hit the wall with
the driver's side and his head impacted the concrete retaining wall,
Simpson came up with a stout secondary window net that triangulates
the roll cage by the driver's head several inches inboard from the
window net to arrest and absorb the deceleration forces over a
distance and prevent the helmet from reaching the window opening.

Their not exactly dropping like flies over here.  What makes this so
high-profile is that after such a long period without losing a driver
(I think the last Cup death was in 93 when Neil Bonnet died in a crash
during practice for the Daytona 500.  Prior to that was J.D. McDuffie
at Watkins Glen in 1990.)  Also there is the fact that they were both
young, promising drivers with the bulk of their careers ahead of them.
Having one of them be heir-apparent to one of the greatest racing
dynasties in American motorsports didn't hurt either.

I think it's pretty clear that there are certainly some issues with
the track at Loudon, NH, that will most likely receive attention in
the coming months.  This sort of multiple occurance leaves the track
operators exposed to far too much liability if they do not respond to
it.  The issues as I see them are that the track has little banking to
help turn the car and keep it at shallower angles if it breaks away in
a corner.  There is apparently a bump also at the end of the back
straight which, if a driver is already trying to regain control of his
vehicle, can seriously effect the car's stability.  It also appears
that the entry into the turns is rather abrupt, but I don't see how
they might address this without increasing the physical distance that
separates the two straights which seems economically infeasible.

As Richard Petty commented at Loudon yesterday after the crash, these
sorts of things do happen.  The cars are capable of generating forces
that are simply beyond the human body's ability to tolerate.

I expect the same thing happened to Kenny and Adam is what happened to
J.D. McDuffie.  Without proper head restraint in opposition to the
deceleration vector, the instantaneous weight of their helmeted heads
broke their necks.  The urgent gesticulations for assistance of the
first rescue worker who arrived at Kenny's inverted car sound quite
similar to the reactions of the fellow driver who looked into J.D.
McDuffie's inverted car at Watkins Glen.  It's a bit unsettling to see
someone*** in their harness with their neck four or five inches
longer than it's supposed to be...  

It's quite likely that even with some sort of restraint they would've
been killed anyway, but would have lingered in a coma until the
families agreed to pull the plug because there's simply no way to
safely decelerate the human brain in five or six feet from nearly two
hundred miles per hour.  The damned thing just mashes straight into
the inside of the skull and ruins itself.  That's what nearly killed
Bobby Allison and Ernie Irvan.  It almost killed Neil Bonnet the first
time, but the damned fool had to get back in a race car and it finally
got him the second time around.  (I'm still bitter about his death.  I
was quite fond of him.)

F1 used to be a *** sport until the risk of being killed became
sufficiently important to enough of the star drivers to force changes
to the tracks and cars for the purpose of safety.  If Winston Cup cars
had to race on all those chicane-ridden little playpens in use by  F1
today, the drivers would be dying of old age and the fans of boredom.

I admire the synaptic responses and skill of today's F1 drivers, but a
far greater percentage of a winning performace has to do with the car
today, not the driver.  I cannot think of a single driver of the past
decade which I would name in the same sentence with Jim Clark.  Just
my opinion, though...

Regards,
Brett C. Cammack
That's Racing! Motorsports
Pompano Beach, FL

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bottom........"

A human being can fall off a 40 story building into the right kind of soft
landing and be none the worse for wear. That same person falls 40 feet onto
concrete and...............well you can figure out the rest...........

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