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- dlm85, on 11/02/2009, -1/+23Kudos to the safety crews and the designers of the safety features in the car.
- inactive, on 11/02/2009, -2/+21shake and bake baby!!
- Awwzm, on 11/02/2009, -2/+20Good to see he was OK.
That was one of the strangest crashes I've ever seen. I thought the roof flaps were supposed to stop that from happening. - inactive, on 11/02/2009, -0/+13It's called RESTRICTOR plates. I quit watching NASCAR years ago, because they have it in their mind that everyone should be equal. All the cars have to look the same, they have to have the same engines bla bla bla.
NASCAR wants all the cars bunched up together so there is a greater chance of a wreck.
The "stock car" died back in the 80's. - danielrh9, on 11/02/2009, -0/+11I don't know how, but I'm sure this is somehow the fault of the restrictor plate. Dumbest idea ever.
- clinko, on 11/02/2009, -0/+9I just wanted to state that NASCAR ruined Talladega with their morning rules; turning it into a fuel race.
It just saddened me. Like watching an old friend getting sicker on its possible death bed. - Brak710101, on 11/02/2009, -2/+11Those flaps keep the car from flipping by itself why it spins around sideways at high speed. Even the smallest bump from another car can possibly lift the car beyond the limits of the air stops. Even if it looks relatively small, remember they are going nearly 200mph.
- shutaro, on 11/02/2009, -6/+14Help me, Oprah!!!
- FearlessFreep, on 11/02/2009, -0/+7Yeah, someone got under Newman and lifted him and at that point those tiny roof flaps are not going to help
The roof flaps just keep you from going airborne if you're backwards. Once you're already airborne, they just look pretty - dekuscrub, on 11/02/2009, -0/+7"If we wanted our sons to be wussies, we would have named them Doctor Quinn and Medicine Woman."
- bduddy, on 11/02/2009, -1/+7Has a nascar.com article ever been on the front page before?
- NealKasper, on 11/02/2009, -1/+6Yes, Alabama. I have all my teeth, and wear shoes.... ***** stereotypes.
- carterx, on 11/02/2009, -0/+5he had nice remarks aimed at Nascar & how it's run
- 3A2D50, on 11/02/2009, -2/+7rallying>motogp>F1>nascar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kVA877K-2Q#t=1m50s
Would have picked a better link if the other youtube videos were working. - FearlessFreep, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4At that point, I don't know who was more scared or more lucky, Newman or Harvick
- Doonce, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4You are so original.
- dj88masterchief, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4Amazing it perfectly flattened Kevin Harvick's roof with the back end
- ToddSchishler, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4That. Just. HAPPENED!
- swgc5, on 11/02/2009, -9/+13F1 > Nascar
- FearlessFreep, on 11/02/2009, -1/+5Actually, I think the restrictor plate is just that on some of the super speedways, the cars can get going *very* fast so they put them in to control the cars and keep them down to (relatively) safer speeds. The consequence is that everyone tends to cram up together, which is why you always end up with at least one twenty car accident (usually at the *worst* possible time for competitive racing)
- michaelamyers, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3Pull the damn plates off the cars, let 'em go, SOMEBODY WILL LIFT.
Give the drivers/teams the ability to "engineer" their own vehicles like they did back in the good old days & you'll have a real race.
Give all the drivers the exact same thing do drive & you get 100+ laps of single file ***** like there was at 'Dega this weekend. - gl77, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3i disagree with people who say that NASCAR is not a sport, it takes some real physical endurance to be strapped tightly into a loud, fast, hot metal cage with wheels wearing a heavy, layered fire suit and helmet and drive at 200 mph in a circle for 500 miles all the while coming within inches of 8 other cars that are all jockeying for the same position and one wrong move can send you into the air and upside down like Ryan Newman. it's just ridiculous to not consider these guys athletes considering all they have to endure physically and mentally.
- rizzo2008, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3agreed they aren't even based on the models they represent. Once they start gutting mustang bodies and turning them into real stock car racers then it would be much more interesting
- fahrvergnuugen, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3Think about what happens when the car spins and is going backward at 150mph with those new rear wings and diffusers...
- fahrvergnuugen, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3WRC FTW. Too bad all thats left is citroen and ford :(
- UselessTrivia, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3It was definitely the bunching that led to this accident. He was in so much traffic that there was simply nowhere to go but into another car. He said it himself...the restrictor plates make it so drivers can't drive around each other anymore. They don't want to be bumping and banging into each other all the time, but they're forced to because their cars are all too evenly matched.
- Snowcr4sh, on 11/02/2009, -2/+5Completely agree. Restrictor plates and letting Toyota into nascar? Wtf...
- RoboRay, on 11/02/2009, -1/+4What are you suggesting? Speed-bumps?
- inactive, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2Hey, they are big boys...if they think they can go 300mph, let em!
Shoot...back in the 50's they barely had ANY safety equipment other than a helmet - dagnabbit, on 11/02/2009, -2/+4Now if only the racing didn't suck with this new design.
- XISUPERMANIX, on 11/02/2009, -1/+3Some people can't even drive 15 mph without ***** something up or getting into an accident. These guys drive at 200 mph, in a sea of tightly packed cars that are separated by a couple of feet and sometimes just inches. Give credit where credit is due, these guys have skill and I doubt you'd have the balls to do it.
- caution, on 11/02/2009, -1/+3auto racing is not just NASCAR rednecks driving crappy cars around a circle.
F1, Grand Am, LeMans, WRC, to name a few are true sport
There are only three true sports:
Auto Racing
Bullfighting
Mountain Climbing
-The rest are games. - pathouston22, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2Nothing is more productive than posting a comment on the internet and a topic you dislike.
- bduddy, on 11/02/2009, -1/+3And California, and New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania...
- AmazingSteve, on 11/02/2009, -1/+3I guess this guy's gonna have to spen a week or so driving around with a cougar in his car.
- Gravey9, on 11/02/2009, -1/+3way to stay on topic.
- humppy, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2That was the most "BORING" race thus far.
C.O.T. {CRAP of TODAY}, restrictor plates, no bump drafting ? Nascar created that mess !
When Ryan Newman and Mark Martin land on their top in the last hand full of laps is the only excitement of a 500 mile race, it's time for Nascar to take up "LAWN MOWER RACING" and leave real racing for MEN !!! - DallasCowboys94, on 11/02/2009, -3/+5This was a bad crash... worse than Carl Edwards' earlier this year.
Nerve-racking couple of minutes when Newman wasn't communicating with anybody. His antenna unhooked during the crash, but reconnected when the car flipped back on all 4's.
People knock the "Car of Tomorrow" but if he was in the older cars, he probably wouldn't be here today. - Sstevareno, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Yeah, I wish there had been a camera in Harvick's car. I'd like to have seen that from his point of view.
- minorthreat, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1CAPTAIN OBVIOUS STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!!
- steakum, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1He should have come out of that car Gob Bluth style...Eye of the Tiger playing, pyrotechnics blasting, cheezy smiling and releasing doves. But walking away from that is pretty impressive too.
- black107, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1They will always go to the limit, but that doesn't mean it will be safe. F1 cars are "safer" now, but they're still incredibly dangerous. Cup cars are "safer" now, but are also still dangerous. Like I said, if Newman's car caught fire (like many other cars have in the past few years) he would have been toast.
And, dont forget, the "danger" factor applies to the spectators too. Part of the reason why they started doing restrictor plates is because Bobby Allison and particularly Richard Petty almost went into the stands at Daytona. However 20 years later they seem to have found themselves back in the same situation, as Carl Edwards nearly got into the stands at Talladega in the spring. - Brak710101, on 11/02/2009, -2/+3This new NASCAR car design is amazing. No matter how bad the wreck is, the driver only needs to be cut out of the car (if even) and he can walk away with almost no injuries. Only a few years ago people were being taken off in strechers or died.
- dj88masterchief, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1I think that the scenario had never happened before, going so fast, you'd think it was perfect conditions to see the effectiveness of the roof flaps, but the air was stronger under the car and the down-force on the car too weak (from the small roof flaps) and it just ended up flipping.
- chrisdohrm, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1NASCAR! NASCAR!
- palehorse864, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Awww, it was nice of those two other drivers to leave the race and go check on him. :)
- RoboRay, on 11/02/2009, -1/+2I-95>rallying>motogp>F1>nascar
- FearlessFreep, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1" (they did a test a few years back with Rusty Wallace at either Daytona or Talladega, which one it was escapes me, but he said it was scary)"
That could be interesting if they pushed it to the point where the cars/tracks are capable of going faster than the drivers are actually willing to go.
" Realistically, just like with Earnhardt, its going to take the death of a driver for them to really reevaluate the situation.
"
Ironically, it's at the point where the cars are so safe, structurally that the chances for a death are much lower. Yes, it will take a death to make NASCAR do something but (fortunately in many ways) that may not happen for awhile - cawpin, on 11/03/2009, -1/+2No, the reason he flipped is he got hit by another car.
Also, NASCAR > F1. - caution, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1
the point of it is that "sport" and "games" are two different things. it's not to be taken literally
(it's also a quote, attributed to Hemingway, but probably said by another writer of his day, and it's not exact, from memory) -
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