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!
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
First race I’ve seen in years. Only watched because my brother-in-law talked me into a fantasy team. At the end, I only had Newman left and he had Hamlin. I never pictured myself screaming for a NASCAR race. Up until the wreck, it was WAY more fun than I’d expected.
I’m glad he’s alive and hope he doesn’t have any injuries that he can’t recover from. My wife wouldn’t go to sleep until she knew he was at least alive.
We have to give NASCAR alot of credit for the car safety mandates they’ve implemented since Earnhart’s death.
But, NASCAR also needs to slow down these cars on super speedways. Next time one of the cars might fly over the catch fence or over a pit road wall (for example).
And then with somber tones, reminiscent of 2001, the announcers declared they have no more information and FOX dismissed the viewers for their regularly scheduled programming.
"Just a racing thing" doesn't do it for me anymore. The likes of the young "superstars" like Busch, Logano, Hamlin, Kesolowski, etc. and followed quickly behind by a myriad of rookie drivers who continue to get away with causing major wrecks and NASCAR allowing these drivers to reap the rewards from intentionally putting other lives at risk is absolutely wrong.
I saw Ricky Stenhouse get a run and see an opening and then reacts to a car swerving toward him and drops below the yellow line. Within a lap or two, the NASCAR fist comes down and he is penalized for passing below the yellow line despite an obvious attempt to avoid a wreck. Logano causes a wreck involving 15 cars (10 or so eliminated from the race) and nothing. It was just a racing deal. It's time to start penalizing at-fault drivers whether it be in race or post race. Park them for a week or two. They will start figuring it out and the owners will start seeing benefits as their young gun drivers stop treating their race cars like throwaway BIC lighters.
It’s funny though how accepting they are of it. Like the guy that crashed Newman, he was just “I was really trying to win”, and like you can’t avoid running into people when you are pushing really hard.
I’m guessing being on the same team probably minimizes the objections — if I was about to win a race, and somebody else ran into the back of my car and pushed me into a wall, and nearly killed me, I think I’d be a bit upset about it.
I used to be a YUGE NASCAR fan. Been to many races. (not super speedways).
I can’t respond to all the asinine comments because there are just too many.
1. Winner celebrating winning while another driver was still in his crashed race car.
Michael Waltrip wins Daytona, while Dale Earnhardt sat DEAD in his #3 race car. Dale Earnhardt was his boss, his car owner, blocked for him, giving Waltrip the win, while causing his own crash, which killed him.
These drivers usually walk away from horrendous crashes without a scratch. Why assume or respond to early reports to the contrary. The celebration is immediate. It’s part of the race. The race isn’t over until the “Winners Circle” event is over.
A crash on the final lap is COMMON. Celebrating WINNING is COMMON. The contention that Hamlin shouldn’t have celebrated is RIDICULOUS! That Joe Gibbs APOLOGIZED all over the place is just PC crap comes to NASCAR.
NEVER APOLOGIZE. Be sympathetic, pray for them, wish them well, but don’t apologize for something you didn’t do to appease the politically correct.
2. Less cars, not bunching up. WRONG! NASCAR is a spectator sport. I remember when these races were hundreds of laps with the same car in the lead or just a few cars having any chance of winning. BORING!
3. Overtime rules work and are necessary. People want a clear cut WINNER. They don’t want a “declared” winner. They don’t want the winner to be the person who was ahead on the PREVIOUS to the last lap.
4. Yes, let’s restrict the speed to whatever the state speed limit is in that state. /s (the speed is already restricted, “restrictor plates”).
Auto racing, and every other form of “racing” is inherently “dangerous”. “Living” is dangerous. All I can say to all you “snowflakes” is BUTCH UP or stay in the truck.
NASCAR needs to outlaw “bump drafting!”
Between wrecks (i.e., racing accidents) the race yesterday was typical boring Daytona FReight train stuff.
IMHO, Denny Hamlin should be disqualified for wrecking Ryan Newman! And fined BIGLY!
“Bump drafting” is one thing. Wrecking your competitor is quite another.
Formula One and sports car sanctioning bodies penalize “rough racing.”
NASCAR needs to do likewise.