Car Crashes Nascar
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As the sport saw more NASCAR Crashes interrupt races, and hurt both drivers and fans, it was forced to implement new measures to increase safety. As a sport racing tends to be slow to change, and even though many fans are excited to see crashes that to them increases the draw of NASCAR, when more happen it has to be stopped. Presented for your approval are some well known NASCAR crashes and the way they impacted NASCAR.
No crash had more impact on NASCAR, the drivers and fans, than the horrible event that ended Dale Earnhardt’s life during the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. Through the years NASCAR hadn’t seen such a famous and influential person die on the race course. As expected NASCAR fans reacted in a huge way – showing their love for the fallen hero and their concern over the tragedy.
Earnhardt’s lasting impact on the sport went far beyond fans’ love of him or all the NASCAR gear sold bearing his name or number. Racing safety and NASCAR’s attitude towards it were forever changed by this, the worst of all NASCAR crashes. There were three major shifts in safety in NASCAR:
- No longer did drivers have a choice of whether or not HANS (Head and Neck Support) would be implemented in their car – it was now required.
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- Steel and Foam Energy Reduction (SAFER) soft barriers replaced hard concrete walls around tracks.
- The program to develop the super safe Car of Tomorrow accelerated to a previously unknown level.
The first big test for Car of Tomorrow came during turn one of the Samsung 500 qualifying at the Texas Motor speedway as one driver slammed a COT into a SAFER barrier. Both SAFER and COT proved worth the effort as the driver walked away from a crash and impact that would have killed him without those new safety measures.
Out of the tragedies of the past new safety equipment that saved lives had been developed. But there was still a great danger on the track – overconfidence.
It’s important to understand the physics of a crash. If once wasn’t enough, maybe twice would suffice for Rusty Wallace who flew in his car at both Daytona and Talladega in 1993. Every roll of the car took away more energy due to the car’s momentum. As long as the safety cage around the driver didn’t crumble, and it didn’t crumble in Wallace’s case, the driver would survive with only minor injuries.
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