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June 29, 2016 at
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Not sure what the speeds will be like at Rockford, but I can tell you that I would not be sitting down close to the fence tonight! That picture the WOO just posted on twitter of the water truck shows an extremely weak looking secondary crash fence without any cable running through it. Not to mention the small crash fence right in front of it on top of the concrete wall......that one looks real dangerous for an open wheel car to go bouncing along the top of with a metal post sticking into the drivers compartment.
Maybe not as bad as the photo looks? But the phote didn't look all that good from what I could see. Hope no one gets hurt on track or in the stands tonight!
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June 29, 2016 at
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June 29, 2016 at
04:55:40 PM by StanM
I took photos at Elko when they did that. Fence height was not an issue there but what I took away from that experience is that a foot of dirt over asphalt lowers wall height by a foot. Didn't see the Rockford pics and sometime photos give a distorted perspective.
Stan Meissner
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June 30, 2016 at
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Looks like chicken wire
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June 30, 2016 at
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Looking at the picture on twitter with the water truck. You have jersey barriers out front, some five foot pipes with heavy half foot square hole wire behind, then back of that 15 foot tall poles with chain link but no 1/4 cables from pole to pole.
i would hate to flip a sprint car down the front wall and have pipe after pipe getting into the cockpit.
Mine is the plywood walls separating the pits from turns three and four. I have been to tracks and had sprint cars go right through the plywood wall.
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