> There is no defense for superspeedways. Shit will continue to happen but
> we don't need to encourage it by building structures with hard obstacles
> inches away from cars that are doing way over 200 mph. Fontana is a
> virtually brand new venue and it still suffers from the same safety
> problems that all superspeedways suffer from. If you want to build safe
> superspeedays tear down the walls and give the drivers some runoff room.
> But no - that would ruin the experience for the fans who enjoy sitting
> on the outside of the turns so they can see all the grisly incidents
> close up. The track owners insist that the organizers are to blame by
> allowing the cars to run that fast but it is really their fault by
> constructing a popular nuisance.
>
> IMHO.
>
> Paul Foster
>
Racing at high speeds weather its a superspeedway or a road coarse or a
dragstrip will definatly lead to some one dieing, Road course's and
superspeedays, it unfair to say that Greg Moore's death was caused by the
design of the super sweeped way, the way that car was flipping he probably
would have been seriously injured at the least or killed like he was,
weather or not there was a wall there. Besides this accident happened on the
inside wall, not the outside, the car was completly outta conrol before even
hitting the wall, so people sitting on the outside of the turn had nothing
to do with this accident at all.
David Teague
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