But I see the fellas and last year especially the gal hit the inside wall harder than they were hitting the outside wall...
Everything worked here, driver got a few bruises, a few fans got what are called minor injuries.
Certainly could have been a lot worse.
Restrictor plate means all the cars can bunch up into a pack easily, never have to lift the gas so everyone is going full bore all out and does not at all want to slow for anything. With a narrow track no place to go when something happens. Then a pack of 2-3 cars are faster than one car, so the rear is coming up on those in front, and the one in front has to block or get sent to the rear. But blocking leads to wrecks....
So obviously throw out the restrictor plate and then they have to drive and brake and so forth right? But then on these couple tracks they end up going 220+ mph and that is about 15mph faster than the car is safe for, that extra inertia seems small but is actually huge, would be less accidents, but they would be killers.
Oh and at some point is still has to be a race, and use the same cars the other tracks use.... So you can't get way out with low,power engines or the like..... It still needs to be a race.
So, it is what it is. They have done a bunch with safer barriers, cockpit design, head restraint, for the drivers. For the fans they moved seats back some, extra chain link fence for low stuff, and so on. I'm sure they will do more.
If we wanted to be safe we would just stay home and watch it on TV..... More dangerous to get out on the highway with all the impatient people with cell phones glued to their ear anyhow.....
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