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Topic: Kyle Larson Wreck @ Daytona
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March 05, 2013 at
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March 05, 2013 at
10:39:31 AM by LVDRTMLS
The marque races in both Indy Car and Sprint Cup still sell out or get very close to a sellout. We were in Daytona over 500 weekend visiting relatives while attending all three nights of the Ocala USAC sprint series and according to the local newspapers the Daytona 500 was a sellout.
We were also at the Indy 500 in 2012 and although the stands between 3 & 4 weren't completely full it was very close to a sellout. No question about it, though, aside from the Indy 500 the Indy Car series is in a bad way. It's salvageable but not healthy.
The same problems that CART was beset with are coming back to haunt the present day Indy Car series. Too many owners and sponsors forcing the sanction to schedule and run races that won't carry nearly enough domestic interest. I all comes back to the same old adage that foreign drivers in foreign cars on road courses will not create enough interest to sustain itself.
Sorry, hijack over.
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March 05, 2013 at
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Posted By: jholz2002 on March 04 2013 at 11:43:08 PM
Well put!! Love him or hate him, he is a damn good young talent. I've never been a fan or a hater of Kyle, but when I saw that crash, my stomach dropped. Once I saw him climb out I thanked my lucky stars!! Ten years ago he would of never climbed out of that car. As far as slowing them down, that's what causes this problem. I say with the advances in safety, open em back up. This would spread the cars out much more and avoid the pack racing. All in all, 200mph or 220 mph, what's the difference?!?!?
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to answer your last question, its 20 mph. ha ha thats my public skool education at work.
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March 05, 2013 at
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Posted By: LVDRTMLS on March 05 2013 at 10:38:39 AM
The marque races in both Indy Car and Sprint Cup still sell out or get very close to a sellout. We were in Daytona over 500 weekend visiting relatives while attending all three nights of the Ocala USAC sprint series and according to the local newspapers the Daytona 500 was a sellout.
We were also at the Indy 500 in 2012 and although the stands between 3 & 4 weren't completely full it was very close to a sellout. No question about it, though, aside from the Indy 500 the Indy Car series is in a bad way. It's salvageable but not healthy.
The same problems that CART was beset with are coming back to haunt the present day Indy Car series. Too many owners and sponsors forcing the sanction to schedule and run races that won't carry nearly enough domestic interest. I all comes back to the same old adage that foreign drivers in foreign cars on road courses will not create enough interest to sustain itself.
Sorry, hijack over.
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DITTO!!!!!! Put a V-8 in a Oswego type super mod and let open wheel drivers go at it. I used to get po`ed when there were only 3 or 4 drivers in the 500 that came up through the sprints or midgets....now I cant pronounce the names.
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March 05, 2013 at
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I had a box truck pass me the other day & it said Larson Windows on it & I thought they owned that .
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March 05, 2013 at
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Posted By: sprintcarfanatic on March 05 2013 at 05:27:41 PM
I had a box truck pass me the other day & it said Larson Windows on it & I thought they owned that.
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if it passed you, kyle was probably behind the wheel.
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March 05, 2013 at
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March 05, 2013 at
07:47:05 PM by BIGFISH
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Posted By: Action Racing Photography on March 04 2013 at 07:36:25 PM
If you look at the photo, the fuel cell is still where it was bolted into the frame and the entire rear part of the frame is still intact all the way to the back bumper. The back of the car was not sheered off as you claim, only the sheet metal was ripped off. Now the front of the car is completely another story. Where the car hit had the notch in the fence with double poles on each side which the car hit exactly dead center. The front stub of the frame and the engine stopped right where it was wedged into that hole in the fence. The right front wheel assembly was sheered off and along with all of the sheet meta, fiberglass, carbon fiber nose etc went int the stands and injured the fans. It is going to take another death of a driver or one getting seriously injured to get NASCAR to slow these cars down on all three Series. There is no need for the cars and trucks to be traveling at 200 mph, regardless of the "safety built into the cars" as NASCAR claims. Larson's car turned into yet 3,500 pound another airplane when it got turned around by the contact.
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Where the car hit had the notch in the fence with double poles on each side which the car hit exactly dead center. The front stub of the frame and the engine stopped right where it was wedged into that hole in the fence.
There was also a cross piece on top of the gate frame that tied it all together. I've said from the get go and with a video of another car hitting close to the same place as a example showing that if the car had hit just the fence 20 feet in either direction it would have just been another bad wreck.
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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March 05, 2013 at
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March 05, 2013 at
08:14:20 PM by VoiceOfTheSpeedway
Anyone remember the Don McTavish crash on the sportsman race, where he hit the edge of the wall opening just past the (then) armco gate exiting turn 4, pretty much cut the car in half just like this one, unfortunately he was impacted head on and didn't survive......then the Michael Waltrip crash at Bristol when he hit the edge of the wall opening just past the armco gate exiting turn two......pretty much the same result, and Michael, luckily climbed out of a pile of rubble......seems the common denominator here is openings in the wall.....get rid of 'em......make the fans walk around or under if they want through (hell, Smoke'll just climb over the fence if he wants in...LOL......When quizzed about catch fence systems after the tragic Dan Weldon deal, Dr Dean Sicking of the Univ. Of Nebraska (that developed the safer barrier) said they've had things in place for an improved system, but at the time, it would be cost prohibitve....We'll see if things get rushed along any time soon.....but for now, get rid of the wall openings...........JMO..............SC
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