Forum: HoseHeads Sprint Car General Forum (go)
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Great nite of racing ...track lightning fast and a great field.....some very nasty crashes especially the 81 car down the front stretch,,,glad everyone walked away. Glad to see Doug an Justin Clark get missed by the flying front axle..I hope the woman that was hit in the grandstands was okay they never did say how she was doing. All I know is the ambulance went outside the track to the back of the grandstand.

I don't like seeing drivers hurt, but it really disturbs me when fans get hurt...even when there's really not much that could have been done about it. Hope everyone is OK. I still remember Justin Clark getting knocked out by that wing panel a couple years ago and how weird that seemed at the time...until a front axle went to Dingus and that was weirder. Odd things happen at the race track, even if people think they can't.

I passed the ambulance behind the stands as they were putting her into it. She seemed OK, no visible injuries, and looked more embarrassed than hurt. With Brown in front at the time and it already after 11, there didn't seem to be any reason to stay. Agan was a madman in the 360s. Could have given Garner a run for the points championship if he wasn't so far ahead already.

No fans were hit or touched by anything off a race car, the woman in question fell down and skinned her knee and arm as she was running away AFTER the axle stopped rolling. This is what an ambulance crew member reported to their spouse via text.

Thanks for clearing that up Tony. Appreciate it.

Front tubes and front part of frame were missing when they towed it back to the pits. Brought several chunks of the front of the frame back. Axle would need to be tethered to the frame at least behind the radiator, any farther forward and the frame the axle was tethered to would just sail into the stands with it.

Can you read nothing got in the stands

Okay I get it that it didnt get in the stands...but it cleared the fence...where did it land the walk way??????? OK fast fwd to August when the place is packed to the gills.....then what? Not bein a dick here just sayin anything over the front or back stretch fences is into the stands in my opininon..... you make one comment any more and its instant dicks responding

My wife told me if I went to one more Sprint Car race 
she would leave me.................I'm sure gonna miss 
that ol' gal. 

I always cringe when I hear of anything getting through the fence at Knoxville when you consider how good it is - probably better than 95% of dirt tracks out there. When I think of how inadequate the fences are at the tracks in California - with the exception of Tulare and maybe the PAS - it's downright terrifying.

if measure can be taken to keep axles from flying...then you don't have to be in a position of splitting hairs about where it specifically landed or stopped flying.

I undertand some have public relations responsibilities...but dont look a gift horse in the mouth if measures could be taken for LESS axels to sail to begin with. I don't want to hear about an axle flying at the folks in the pits either!

Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH 
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
"I didn't move to PA from El Paso in search of better 
weather." Van May

There was also an axle sailing from a 360 in their A, no where near the stands, but maybe it's time to tether.

speaking of idiotic things in sprint car racing...Some drivers still feel they don't need to install a rock screen!

do it in the dirt

My wife told me if I went to one more Sprint Car race 
she would leave me.................I'm sure gonna miss 
that ol' gal.