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First of all, I'm glad a Yuku glitch didn't manage to wipe out what I was thinking. Nice job jh.

wobblypop wrote:

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My point was that we have a lot of drama here, as does the media, and the fact is the car is safe, so Newman was safe, and we should all be happy about that. I was listening to Moody on the Sirius show tonight on the way back from bike ride, and he said the only thing Newman said when it was over was that he had to pee. To me, that speaks volumes...his life was never really in jeopardy any more than any other time these guys strap in. I'm thrilled that NASCAR has finally accomplished a very safe car. If we can just get all the tracks as safe, with SAFER barriers ALL the way around, not just in the turns, we will have solved a large portion of the problem...

I'm in complete agreement that the car is much safer than the old one, and I'm glad for that. I also don't doubt that the tracks are safer but still need some work. Frankly NASCAR needed to so something after nearly having a car loose in the stands earlier this year. Do all that and what have you got? A situation that's still unpredictable and dangerous because the cars will clump up in one big pack, or less and less interesting as you put in place rules to prevent the kind of mistakes that lead to big wrecks. Except that you can't cover all the bases and you'll still get big wrecks, without all that interesting racing. Like yesterday.

What do you do? How about fixing the cars so they have to slow down for the corners? You could lower the banking to make that happen, but of course they just finished repaving the place. How about taking enough downforce away from the cars so that they slither and slide around the track like they did in the old days? That would be fun. It would break up the pack and fix it so the cars that handle best with the best drivers would move to the front and separate from the others, too. That sounds like racing to me.

BTW, I loved what Mark Martin said in post wreck interview. He said things that NASCAR would find acceptable, but he used a tone and manner that made it clear he was as disgusted as most of us were. By doing so he put the spotlight on the atrocious yet dangerous racing that took place, and the gag rule that we all know keeps drivers from saying what they really think in most cases.