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May 24, 2010 at
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Posted By: PINit! on May 24 2010 at 10:25:46 PM
Cornell did do what he was supposed to, and there hasn't been a comment made that suggests otherwise. However, to say Humston could have moved, or may not have been paying attention is borderline asinine. Have you ever been driving down the interstate at 75 and came upon a car going 60? That car is there before you know it. Now imagine coming off of a corner at 90+ with lapped traffic in front of you... you get my point. It doesn't matter if Cornell's car was stopped or not. By the time Humston realized Cornell was slowing (or stopped, depending on who you talked to) he didn't have time to get underneath him. Cornell did nothing wrong, Humston did nothing wrong (and in fact by choosing the high side instead of trying to get underneath may have prevented a much more serious incident), the officials... well they apparently followed track policy, which in my opinion, is wrong. I would not be the least surprised to see "the track policy" changing in the near future.
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He has and he knows.
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May 24, 2010 at
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..and he can watch the video of it here http://www.knoxvilleraceway.com/Videos.aspx
None of this should be or is about placing blame. Hopefully something can be done to improve safety for the drivers.
Rome wasn't built in a day......but they sure didn't
waste any time burning it down!
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May 25, 2010 at
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And if you watch the video, the #3 was blocking the view of cornells slowing car and in fact the #3 swerves to miss cornell at the last minute, thus exposing cornell's very slow car with no time to react for Humston. Just a racing deal, no ones fault and Humston reaction created the best outcome that could have happened under those circumstances. He had no time to turn left and had he tried it would have been a direct hit at full speed into an almost parked car!
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May 25, 2010 at
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After watching the video the thing that stuck out most to me was watching the emergency crew get the driver out of the car so fast with the threat of a fire. Well done Knoxville emergency crew.
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May 25, 2010 at
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Posted By: BESTFRIEND on May 25 2010 at 06:26:36 AM
And if you watch the video, the #3 was blocking the view of cornells slowing car and in fact the #3 swerves to miss cornell at the last minute, thus exposing cornell's very slow car with no time to react for Humston. Just a racing deal, no ones fault and Humston reaction created the best outcome that could have happened under those circumstances. He had no time to turn left and had he tried it would have been a direct hit at full speed into an almost parked car!
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I agree with you after watching that video also. Chad was pretty lucky that his car didn't get launched over the fence & out into the parking lot.
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May 25, 2010 at
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After watching the replay, it looks to be a really unfortunate 'wrong time at the wrong place' for Humston.
That said .... I think the track needs to review their policy about stopped vs. slowed.
The track rule seems to have been followed by JC ...but that is in my opinion a very bad rule (in this case) I am sure times it works out fine ....this time it was a DISASTER.
Writing that Humston might have been distracted or not using the available escape options is pretty much not what I would ever say .... he was behind at speed cars and they all came upon a stopped or barely moving car in a flash .... and you arm chair drivers think you know what he did wrong??
Humston's view had to be blocked until the split second the cars in front moved around the slowing/stopped car and he had a FRACTION of a second to react.
'He said ..she said' ...I agree with MB and Humston totally in this incident.
R.A.
S.H.S.
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May 25, 2010 at
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After watching the video the first thing I would say is that the start was a complete abortion and anyone who either did not call that back or directed that it not be needs to out of a job. It was worse than the ones I've seen USAC let go where you stop and look at eachother with a "are they going to let that go?" glance. Stevie Wonder would have called that start back. Hell - EVEN Mike Adreetta would have called that start back. As for what happened to Humston everybody needs to just be thankful because that could have been MUCH worse.
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May 25, 2010 at
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The video sheds some different light on this. I didn't see the 3 car swerve left at the last second when I was watching it unfold live. Tough break for Humston... could've been worse! I tend to agree with azteca..
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May 27, 2010 at
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YIKES!!! I just watched the video of this on the Knoxville website. All I can say is they are damn lucky someone didn't get hurt or worse. This is not Chad's or Jonathon's fault at all. This falls directly on Knoxville officiating. I have seen these competition yellows in NASCAR to supposedly make the racing better, but in this case when it is a safety issue, a MAJOR mistake was made by not presenting a yellow to clear a car that was clearly off the pace and in the racing groove... I am glad to hear everyone ,excluding Mark and Jonathon's pocketbook, are O.K. I would hope this is a lesson learned by the officials, not only at Knoxville but every track, that safety is first. Throw the damn yellow.
Ken Netsch.
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May 27, 2010 at
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Posted By: BESTFRIEND on May 24 2010 at 01:52:19 PM
Go to the pits next week and go to the drivers meeting and I am sure you will hear them repeat like they have always said, they will NOT throw the yellow as long as your car is still moving.
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I've been to many a drivers meetings at Knoxville and have never heard that said.
I was not there last week and don't know if weather was threatening, but if rain was at all possible I do know that Knoxville goes into what they like to call "rain mode" which means no delays, no restarts, no breaks...hurry hurry hurry. They do make that very apparent in drivers meetings. IF rain was possible I would assume that played a role in not restarting the race or throwing a caution for Cornell. Of course that is an IF.
Other than that all I would say to Knoxville Raceway is to remember Travis Rutz. Closing speed was likely approaching 100mph. No reason the yellow wasn't out.
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