Posted on 02/18/2020 4:42:17 AM PST by sodpoodle
NASCAR’s most significant safety improvements have come in the wake of major crashes. Restrictor plates were added to cars’ engines at Talladega and Daytona after Bobby Allison’s scary crash. Head and neck restraints became mandatory in the wake of Dale Earnhardt’s fatal crash in the 2001 Daytona 500. Energy-absorbing SAFER barriers were added to inside walls and other unprotected barriers in the wake of violent wrecks that injured Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch less than two years apart.
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They should limit the number of cars to 20. Forty cars, all packed in is too many!!!!
I thought Ryan Newman might have died in the crash, when it to a decent amount of time to get him out of the car and they brought the black curtains and the stretcher I thought the worst....
The 2nd car that hit him right in the driver side window was looked to be really serious....
I think these “overtime” rules need amending, as they encourage crashing to prolong the finish.
It’s motor-racing for Pete’s sake! It’s risky just like sky-diving. Stock car racing is safer than skiing. Flippin’ nanny staters STFU!
I’ve watched and attended motorsports for many years. Based on the curtain panels they brought out, lack of replays, drivers side and driver roof impact, Jeff Gordons reaction, fan reaction, other teams reaction, etc. I would have bet Ryan was dead. In fact, went to bed thinking he was. Certainly was a close call.
Ryan and his wife recently separated after 16 years of marriage.
Praying for Ryan Newman!
Any given NFL team has more injuries annually than all of NASCAR racing teams.
The restrictor plate was just to bunch them up. All the rules are just to keep them bunched up.
NASCAR is racing history kept alive by advertising. I don’t even know who half the sponsors are now.
I starting watching with 22 laps to go which was just before a major pile up that took a bunch of cars out.
I was amazed at some of the cars going back on the track with major damage just to get lap points.
That said, I believe when the last lap crash happened with Newman in the lead, they should've waved the checkered. Nascar loves Toyotas...
Rubbin is Racin’!
How many were actually running at the finish?
I have always thought that all dangerous “sports” should be banned at once!
Car racing, SCUBA, parachute-jumping, mountain or rock climbing, — anything where the risk of death or serious injury is too high for the (new) Sports Safety Administration to approve.
The load this insane, adrenaline-soaked, thrill-seeking group of activities on Society for medical costs that will result is intolerable.
I’m glad Mr. Ryan will survive, truly; but the pain and expense to himself and Society is simply too great to bear.
If the (new) Sports Safety Administration can save just ONE life, then it’s more than fair to ALL of us to ban these needlessly dangerous “sports.”
/sarc
(P.S. — I ay “(new)” because if the millennial morons give us a socialist administration, then you can bet your hat, butt, and overcoat that we’ll have a Sports Safety Admin. Probly cabinet level. Let’s see which cranky old nanny we could appoint to that...
The crashes are the main reason people watch the race. Otherwise how long can you watch cars going around,around,around,around in circles?
It makes no sense to talk about safety when multiple drivers are all driving aggressively, trying to beat the others and taking risks in doing so. It’s how the game is played.
There is nothing that can be done, or should be done, to make them “safer.”
If you want absolute safety, go home and watch TV - but then you could be killed by a meteorite hitting your house.
Spotter tape now on twitter. He told hamlin ryan was upside down and major debris everywhere..as he is celebrating woo hoos yells. So hamlin knew
I posted a pic last night that had his head completely sidways like his neck snapped.also helmet looked off.
Newman . who is an engineer bitched enough to nascar that A Newman bar was put on cars..and it probably saved his life.
I don’t know enough about racing to offer a informed opinion, however I will say it appeared that he caused his own accident. In the race for the finish line he deliberately cut in front of the driver to prevent him from passing. The problem is that the other car was pushed and he has a slower car, that made the difference.
You can see the other car went low first and Ryan jumped out in front of him to prevent from being passed. I think he misjudge the speed of the other car.
Oh no, the crashes make it WORSE!
A race that should’ve been done by 7:45 went on until 8:30 because of the endless crashes and cautions.
I can appreciated car racing, but when it a) goes for hours in circles and b) keeps getting stopped for even little scrapes and c) gets stopped for rain (as this did - all the way to the next day!) - it’s an ~eh~ sport. If a sport at all - it’s definitely a game.
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