Austin Dillon crash NASCAR
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Anyone else see this at the weekend?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhNXrzMfew
About the hardest hit I can recall anyone taking in NASCAR for a good while, and raises the issue of pack racing all over again, following the Indycar race at Fontana, which seems to have divided opinion on the matter.
Staggeringly, Dillon was unhurt, although there were minor injuries to some spectators.
As much as I enjoy NASCAR, I do find myself becoming increasingly nervous when watching these sort of races, and find the way "The Big One" has almost become a brand to be really rather distasteful.
At what point does this sort of thing cease to become an accepted part of this sort of racing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhNXrzMfew
About the hardest hit I can recall anyone taking in NASCAR for a good while, and raises the issue of pack racing all over again, following the Indycar race at Fontana, which seems to have divided opinion on the matter.
Staggeringly, Dillon was unhurt, although there were minor injuries to some spectators.
As much as I enjoy NASCAR, I do find myself becoming increasingly nervous when watching these sort of races, and find the way "The Big One" has almost become a brand to be really rather distasteful.
At what point does this sort of thing cease to become an accepted part of this sort of racing?
Holy moly! Video from fan view doesn't make it any better: https://instagram.com/p/4yQbB5zLHe/
Shows the car and fence did it's job though, top work to the designers for that.
Shows the car and fence did it's job though, top work to the designers for that.
There was a dash cam view that I saw from I think Jeff Gordons car...it was surreal. I'll see if I can find it.
Think it's here
http://www.foxsports.com/nascar/video/austin-dillo...
Think it's here
http://www.foxsports.com/nascar/video/austin-dillo...
Edited by London424 on Tuesday 7th July 10:39
hornet said:
As much as I enjoy NASCAR, I do find myself becoming increasingly nervous when watching these sort of races, and find the way "The Big One" has almost become a brand to be really rather distasteful.
At what point does this sort of thing cease to become an accepted part of this sort of racing?
As much as I like to see cars at 200mph I don't like pack racing. It's a crapshoot lottery.At what point does this sort of thing cease to become an accepted part of this sort of racing?
We've had the COT, bigger plate holes, tandem drafting; sadly the only solution is to significantly lower one end of the banking. Talladega and Daytona were originally built when 200mph laps were a dream but now its taken for granted.
The other sad thing is that people want to see crashes and drivers walk away from it. Its a very thin line. Nor does it help that NASCAR has been losing popularity over the years.
Longer live video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Tj0ykPvUg
At 3:10 you can see the entire engine + box free from the car. Incredible he walked away from that
At 3:10 you can see the entire engine + box free from the car. Incredible he walked away from that
I watched the whole race live, the rain delay pushing the start time to around 9 am here .
Earnhardt Jnr more or less dictated the race from the front , at some points all the Hendricks Chevrolets held the first four places such was their superiority. A poignant victory for him seeing as car number 3 was the same number his father used .
As the incident unfolded with Dillons car hit at speed whilst stationary by Keselowskis Ford , I for one was amazed and very relieved to see Dillon emerge from the carnage virtually unscathed, a testimony of the integrity of the survival cell .
NASCAR is unique in its format, the drivers highly competitive and skilled, it's not everybody's cup of tea admittedly but its certainly mine .
Earnhardt Jnr more or less dictated the race from the front , at some points all the Hendricks Chevrolets held the first four places such was their superiority. A poignant victory for him seeing as car number 3 was the same number his father used .
As the incident unfolded with Dillons car hit at speed whilst stationary by Keselowskis Ford , I for one was amazed and very relieved to see Dillon emerge from the carnage virtually unscathed, a testimony of the integrity of the survival cell .
NASCAR is unique in its format, the drivers highly competitive and skilled, it's not everybody's cup of tea admittedly but its certainly mine .
I cannot believe they even ran that race... the rain delay meant a start time approaching midnight, yep it may well be the shortest race on the calendar but its still gonna run for 3 or so hours and I reckon a lot of fans left assuming it will be a Monday race.
Not that I am suggesting that the crash was related to that in any way and most of the stands were empty aside from where the crash happened and I think we all gotlucky that debris fence stood up to its job. That had to a deceleration similar to David Purley's "record breaking" crash and a testament to NASCAR's safety work with the cars.
Not that I am suggesting that the crash was related to that in any way and most of the stands were empty aside from where the crash happened and I think we all gotlucky that debris fence stood up to its job. That had to a deceleration similar to David Purley's "record breaking" crash and a testament to NASCAR's safety work with the cars.
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