[Jerry Shaw]

You guys are absolutely right about one thing. The fact that this happened falls squarely on the shoulders of all of those who put this show together. Promoters and sanctioning body. This should have been inspected before hand and this never should have happened. Especially since were talking about a track that race teams had refused to race on, in the past, due to things that made it an unsafe racing environment.

And as bad as that ended up turning out, it wasn't the worst thing that happened tonight. That, IMO, would be the misguided individual that took the microphone and attempted to incite the crowd into turning against the race teams that were leaving, because of what they perceived to be safety issues. At one point calling them a bunch of young pansies and stating that AJ Foyt or Rich Vogler wouldn't be leaving, like they were. SAFETY TRUMPS EVERYTHING, IMO and you can blame whoever you want for what happened tonight, but there is ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE for questioning the courage of the majority of the racers that voted to not race on this surface. Or the race teams that didn't want to put their drivers (young and old) in an unsafe situation.

But that's just one race fan's opinion.

Jerry