Nasty Crash in NASCAR Qualifying

[Marcellus]

This is almost as bad as Shygums crash earlier tonight.

Can you say ouch.

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3330196&categoryId=2378529

[JBucc]

I saw it on Sportscenter. One of the worst one car crashes I've ever seen.

[kstater]

Yup with the safety barrier and the "COT" he walked away. Will be sore tomorrow, but could be a lot worse without the new safety measures.

[keg in kc]

Brutal.

[SBK]

Wow. That looked 100x worse than the wreck that killed Dale E.

[Demonpenz]

as long as the car is losing energy they are ususally ok. It is when they are going 100 mph and come to a stop.

[Abba-Dabba]

Car performed flawlessly. Not really that bad of a wreck. Just rolled quite a few times is all, mainly caused by the banking of the track. Cage kept completely intact. Ho-hum wreck IMO.

You want to see a bad crash? Check out Michael Waltrip in Bristol from 1988. Now that is a bad crash. Lucky to survive it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVlj7F8OJCY

[Demonpenz]

greg moore

[Abba-Dabba]

Wow. That looked 100x worse than the wreck that killed Dale E.

You want a cart to fall apart in a wreck. Alot of force is scraped off when each piece shreds off. When they don't fall apart is when you worry.

[kcxiv]

Car performed flawlessly. Not really that bad of a wreck. Just rolled quite a few times is all, mainly caused by the banking of the track. Cage kept completely intact. Ho-hum wreck IMO.

You want to see a bad crash? Check out Michael Waltrip in Bristol from 1988. Now that is a bad crash. Lucky to survive it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVlj7F8OJCY

What was brutal was him going head first into the soft wall. If that wasnt there, he probably wouldnt have lived. The rolling part wasnt that bad, but the initial contact with the wall was brutal.

[Abba-Dabba]

:shrug:What was brutal was him going head first into the soft wall. If that wasnt there, he probably wouldnt have lived. The rolling part wasnt that bad, but the initial contact with the wall was brutal.

He wouldn't have lived? I just have to agree to disagree. Maybe I have just seen too many wrecks to cloud my judgement. :shrug:

A much more violent and serious wreck would be Mark Martin Talladega 1994. No brakes or steering, head first through 1 guard rail, dead stop at the next.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb03lHbwmCA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx_4lUjl8eU&NR=1

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[acesn8s]

Rookie :shake:

[Mosbonian]

If you have watched racing for any length of time (NASCAR, CART, MotoCross) then you have probably seen worse crashes. NASCAR is filled with crashes much worse than this one, and the fact that this driver and many others are able to walk away are testament to the attention that they have finally given to the safety of the drivers. IMO, the crash that Jeff Gordon had a few weeks ago against the infield was was worse than this one.

That said, this was stil a pretty wild crash.

mmaddog
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[Old Dog]

Here's another pretty rough one...I hadn't seen it before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92av-puVQLY&feature=related

[Old Dog]

Some others from the first NASCAR race I went too, 1993 Diehard 500 at Talledega.......

Crash that sent Jimmmy Horton over the outside wall and caused a traumatic brain injury to Stanley Smith (he died three days later):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBBUUyy94jc&feature=related


Neil Bonnet going into the retaining fence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEviE0-ewVA&feature=related

This was the only race I ever saw Earnhardt win.

[stonedstooge]

When was the wreck at Indy where the driver ran into the concrete barrier that separated the pits from the track. Thas was one of the most amazing crashes I have seen. His indy car lost almost every piece and when it finally stops you think he's probably hurt badly or dead and then you see him trying to unbuckle himself out. Just blew my mind. This happened several years ago before safety was as much of a concern. Anyone remember the year and the driver?

[BigRedChief]

Worse one that I've seen in the Richard Petty one at the Daytona 500 in 88 when he rolls, flips, gets some air and then gets hit again.

This was before the tech caught up enough to where most of these guys walk away from the crashes. He just got a broken ankle out of this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOYBH7igTY

[headsnap]

When was the wreck at Indy where the driver ran into the concrete barrier that separated the pits from the track. Thas was one of the most amazing crashes I have seen. His indy car lost almost every piece and when it finally stops you think he's probably hurt badly or dead and then you see him trying to unbuckle himself out. Just blew my mind. This happened several years ago before safety was as much of a concern. Anyone remember the year and the driver?

89 I believe and it was Kevin Cogan... that was on the first lap. I was at that race, my seats were 13 rows up on the inside of pit row. The cockpit of Kevin's car came to a stop directly in front of us. I was sure we were looking at a dead man.

That Indy was a BLAST!!!

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[MOhillbilly]

aint shit, the wrecks from the 60s where they didnt have high banked gaured rails are brutal.

[beavis]

I don't care how much money they make, they are ****ing idiots for getting in those cars.

[Mosbonian]

I saw some wrecks at Hickory NC in the early days that you just knew no one would walk away from....

mmaddog
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[Halfcan]

nice one-that is the Only reason to watch boring Nascar.

[KCChiefsMan]

maybe he was drunk. They say drunk drivers usually walk away from bad wrecks while the other party is seriously injured. j/k

Just goes to show the safety measures they take when building these race cars.

[R&GHomer]

Here's another pretty rough one...I hadn't seen it before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92av-puVQLY&feature=related


:eek: Wow, that was brutal. Looked like the car was torn in half. That is one seriously lucky dude.

[Bowser]

Obviously, he didn't expect to have a left hand turn come up on him.

[GoHuge]

Yeah I was watching it when it happened and I initially thought he was dead. Five years ago he probably would have been. The COT has moved the driver's seat over about 4 inches and put a big ass metal bar on that side with alot of energy absorbing foam. That, the HANS, and the safer barriers all did their job. It is sad that it took losing Dale Earnhardt for NASCAR to make all of this stuff mandatory. All of that stuff was available when he got killed, but he chose not to use it and like I said NASCAR didn't make it mandatory until after he got killed. If he'd of had the HANS on I think he would have survived, and probably walked away with safer barriers. I thought that Jeff Gordon wreck a couple of weeks ago was ridiculous. Having a perpendicular wall to where the cars are running on a track is stupid, but having it without a soft wall is even worse. Maybe if another superstar dies NASCAR will finally line all the walls on the track with safer barriers. It's just retarded for that wall to be where it was, it's almost guaranteed the driver is going to be going 150+ mph when they hit it. Even Gordon said if it wasn't for the new COT and HANS he wouldn't have walked away from that deal. It's just sad that it takes tragedy to get NASCAR to act.

I dare say had it been somebody other than Dale Earnhardt that got killed some of this safety stuff might still be optional or not on the walls. This is why the drivers should start a union. They are the only major league sport I can think of where the participants/athletes (not going to debate that) don't have one. I remember on Hard Knocks with the Ravens when Tony Sarigusa was the Player's Rep. for them. Him and the other team's Rep refused to play a pre season game on that team's field because of the condition it was in and the safety concerns that came with it. NFL players refused and had it negotiated in the CBA that they had the right to refuse to play on a field that was in bad shape for fear of tweaking an ankle. NASCAR forced the Cup drivers to race on a track that was seeping water at the California this year going almost 200 mph going into the corners. The drivers had to race on it or lose points for sitting out. If I remember right it took Junior, Casey Mears (upside down), Denny Hamlin, and Hornish all crashing because the water before they finally stopped it. These safety improvements in NASCAR have kept alot guys from getting hurt and has probably saved several lives, but the drivers should have the right to say this track isn't ready to race on and we're not going out on it. I remember Gordon and Johnson went out and looked at it, but it obviously still wasn't ready to be raced on. Several drivers on the pace laps where saying it wasn't dry yet, but they still threw the green flag.

NASCAR has done several good things with safety, but it always takes somebody paying a very high price for them to act. Had it not been for some good fortune to go along with current safety measures, Jeff Gordon came very close to reminding NASCAR about an obvious obvious problem that seven years after Dale Earnhardt died still isn't fixed. Track owners have plenty of money to line every wall with safer barriers. Gordon reminded everybody a couple of weeks ago that when these cars wreck they will find that one spot that doesn't have a soft wall. It will be pretty sad if we are talking about another driver being killed on a 50 foot section of wall that a track owner decided to save a few bucks on by not putting the safer barrier up. Every wall that a driver could possibly hit should be covered.