To much speed. Too many cars. Too much open space above the cockpit. Too much financial incentives to take unnecessary risks.
This is very, VERY little consolation to his family but he must have died very quickly and I can only assume with little pain. At that type of speed, your head hitting a post hopefully means he was here one second... and in heaven the next second.
Sounds like a nice way to say he was essentially decapitated.
“Non-survivable.” We used to call that “fatal.”
I was at the race, and watched the accident unfold literally beneath me.
I had just commented to my friend as the cars had come out of the far turn that they were coming 3 wide down the straightaway.
Somebody panicked in the corner, slammed the brakes, and it was all over from there.
I once found myself coaching a Jr. High track team for awhile.
My "coaching" consisted of saying "bear to the left and get back as fast as you can".
I just don't get it. A 200 MPH road trip to nowhere.