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4 Aug 2011, 09:57 (Ref:2935712) | #1 | ||
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Brads Crash
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Why: Keselowski’s crash is expected to again call into question NASCAR’s testing rules, which forbid testing at any venue that hosts a NASCAR-sanctioned event. The rules force teams to test at older venues with lower safety standards, including the Road Atlanta road course and ovals such as Texas World Speedway. |
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You do realize that those "lower safety standards" at Road ATL are good enough for the same sportscars that race at Le Mans? In Brad's own words,
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Thanks for posting the pics as I have been wondering where it happened; looks to me like the bottom of the esses, which is a place that is never good to get off the grey stuff. Everything I read stated that where he hit, there were no "safety" barriers, but I see tires in that pic above. And that is one mangled up racecar. Glad Brad is mostly OK and looks like he'll be in the Blue Deuce at Pocono. |
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RdATL is a tough place to screw up. Racing is dangerous. If the locals are man enough to run around Kershaw, Hickory, etc. every weekend, why not Nascar? Also I have seen several articles about it not being a safer barrier. No ****. It's better, it's a tire wall. |
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But yes, J.Hamilton, I read that BS from Tom Jensen about "no safer barrier" and thought what an idot. |
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BK is cleared to race.
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The thing with Brad was sort of like the "big bullet theory". LMP1 cars used to top out there at about 180mph going into turn 1 (where I think the accident happened according to Speed), while a Sprint Cup car will probably top out at about 150-160 or so, maybe more.
But a Sprint Cup car weighs nearly twice as much as an LMP1, and doesn't have a lot of things up front to break to absorb energy. After you crush the front bumper cover, fenders, hood and the radiator/oil cooler assembly, about the only thing that's left is the engine and engine bearer/suspension assembly. Those rigid items don't absorb a lot of force, hence why Brad fractured that ankle and has a sore back and neck, even with the HANS. The fact that he won Pocono this weekend, though shows how Brad gutted it out and that he wasn't injured worse than he was. |
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