NITRO JUNKIE
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Why not try to change how deep the gravel is ?Sam, I disagree. The teams are the best developers of safety items, the NHRA just needs to manage the sport.
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Why not try to change how deep the gravel is ?Sam, I disagree. The teams are the best developers of safety items, the NHRA just needs to manage the sport.
Its not sand, its pea gravel or something similar. Not saying it wont firm up, but its not the same as sand.With all the moisture there over the weekend, I would think the sand would be stuck together and firm. They probably should have graded the sand a bit every day.
They were formed in the name of safety and that should be their objective first and foremost. It would be in their best interest to make the sport as safe a possible unless they want to lose the ability to secure insurance.Sam, I disagree. The teams are the best developers of safety items, the NHRA just needs to manage the sport.
So you guy's think the end of the track is not safe enough? You are certainly entitled to that opinion and some tracks are safer than others, but Dallas has to be one of the safest longest shutdown areas we race at. That gravel is freshly fluffed and plowed before every national, she had not gone to the bottom of the gravel by any stretch. Do you want her to run into a wall of gravel? Do you want them to build a gravel ramp?Why not try to change how deep the gravel is ?
I agree if you listen to nomex effect Antron was on it last night and had a idea he said have a 2 piece body that connects with Zeus clips and if it blows it will blow the front part of and keep the driver safe that was his idea but you still have a a flying part.I don’t think anyone was saying the NHRA hasn’t done a lot of work to make the top end safer. They should never stop looking into safer ways. It’s not like they have done all they could and should just sit back and say we are done. I agree the teams share in that responsibility but if history has shown anything its that racers are more focused on going faster rather than being safer until a tragedy wakes them up. Having said that I hope there is a lot of work to stop the bodies from flying off the track. It’s only a matter of time before someone is hurt. I don’t have all of the answers. I’m just having an opinionated discussion and I’m not trying to start an argument. It scares me every time someone goes into the trap at a high speed and makes it to the net.