Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark!

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[Basil]

If it were not for updated safety equipment in NASCAR due to the Dale Earnhart crash, that man would be dead now.

 

[bugimike]

He has to be pretty darned rattled! Talk about g-forces! A truly successful test of the latest safety innovations!

 

[vping]

Stuff gives me goose bumps. I was watching it when Dale died and you knew it right away. You think the same would have happened here but good thing for all the saftey they have now.

 

[DNK]

He was this /....\ close to hitting it straight on. Would have been a different story maybe?

 

[bugimike]

I would say that as far as hitting the wall, that "safer barrier" did its job very well. I am just amazed there was no closed-head injury from all the tumbling...no impact, just scrambling!!!

 

[Deleted member 3577]

The one thing that always baffled me was why NASCAR puts their spectators on the outside of turns.

(Therefore requiring a 'jersey barrier' type wall to be constructed around the track for their protection)

Seems kinda odd

 

[Silverghost]

Did you ever see the images of the Richard Petty crash where he went end over end? That was before all the safety measures that came out after Dale Earnhart. That was a scary as heck crash.

Watch the footage of this crash again and notice that the windshield does not come off the car and that the roof and doors retain a relatively intact shape. Amazing testamony to the engineering that goes into these cars!

 

[DougF]

I had a head-on that I estimate was around 85mph. Knowing what it did to me, that is absolutely incredible.

 

[RTR52nd]

Absolutely incredible. The technology of the car and the Safer Barrier literally saved his life.

Well now his car needs about as much work as my B.
(Of course, he won't be having to de-rust his the way I will.)

 

[JacksonMG]

He probably doesn't remember the crash at all.