This could have ended up ALOT worse, especially if he would have hit right at the drivers door.

Wonder if Nascar will do anything about it?

 

I guess the ends of the jersey barrier could be softened up with those plastic cans filled with sand/water... I doubt anything will come of it.

 

I saw a bit after the crash and heard somebody drop the f bomb and the commentators were like, sorry about that.

 

I was more worried about him trying to catch the car and all of a sudden wind up going behind the wall and into the 5's pit box.

Where the wall hit the car is kind of a dead space between the wheel and the battery box. *JUST* forward of that is the roll cage.

 

The problem with barrels is you need a lot of them and they take up a lot of space. That would make it very difficult to get behind the wall and make the first pit space unusable. I think if they simply "bent" the last 15 -30 feet of the pit road wall so it angles away from the pits it would serve the same purpose. I don't think it would cost more than $50-60k and the drivers would have to come from behind the wall to hit the end directly.

 

They should have a gate there.

Like Ian said, that is a dead space and you can see right in front of where he was hit the cage did its job and looks fine to me.

 

They could extend teh wall back toward the gagrage area. It woudl still be a nasty hit, but less likely to puncture the car.

 

That was a freak accident. Sure, it could have been worse.

IMO, no reason to change the existing procedures and regulations just for this. A re-occurance is extremely unlikely, and freak things are always going to happen in racing.

 

But it could happen again and the next person might not be so lucky. What would you tell them.

 

A few pairs of soiled underwear as well I'd bet.

 

Could have been much worse.

Removable steel barriers similar to the metal safer barriers that open like a gate, but they'd have to call in to have them opened for going to the garage.

 

This.

 

NASCAR made the fix before the trucks were loaded and leaving the track. They're mandating the pit entries farther down pit road. There won't be a "gate" this close to pit road entry anymore.

 

Ah, if they don't like any fix suggested they can stay home and watch it on TV.

 

i was thinking of a sideways rounded "L" where it extends a few feet back into the garage area.