Originally Posted by Jim Gardner:
Last month we mourned the loss of our most popular driver and brainstormed ways to make our cars safer. This month we complain that we can't see the drivers and that they need to be exposed to the elements of the track more? Does that make any damn sense?
Its racing and tragic things happen. Nobody is really saying to go back and not run cages or whatever. I'm ok with todays sprintcars but lets not make them something else in the name of safety. Sprintcars don't need no barnstorming they need to just race.
I believe the only real solution is to go to virtual reality racing, but then folks would complain about thumb injuries and such.
Maybe 50 years around racing, seen all the good and bad has hardened me a bit but racing isn't racing without risk. Not everyone makes it out unscathed, just the way it is inless you want to change the whole fabric of the sport.