Originally Posted by LEADERS EDGE:
Like everything else......It's not a problem until something goes wrong and then it's a tragedy.
Not every driver will catch fire during their career and many take fire proof items for granted. That is until you witness someone(or yourself) trapped in a burning inferno when seconds are hours and then it's "We have to do this and that to make the sport safer".
My stance is that no one should be allowed in the pits until 16, because at 16 you should have basic knowledge and commen sense and decision capabilities.
To say the trailer is a safe place is true to a point..... but I have seen more than one car end up in theirs or someone elses trailer.
Like I said, everything is good until it isn't anymore.
I guess for me, if you want to have your child in the pits thats your choice, but I don't want to hear about it when something happens and I sure don't want to hear about a tracks neglegence.
Of course, like I said: How will the next 10 year old phenom be able to make it without being able to get in the pits.
Leaders Edge, our former crew member didn't expect his own negligence for taking his under age son into the pits. He instead tried to sue the Oswego Speedway when his son got hurt. An insurance representative that called my home one day asking all kinds of questions about our home owners insurance if the track insurance didn't cover the young mans injuries got an ear full from me. I made sure she knew who was responsible for taking his son into the pits, he had no one but himself to blame for his son getting hurt.
It has always been my belief the age 16 rule had to do with insurance stipulations. Certainly a 16 year old should have basic knowledge, common sense and decision making capabilities that a small child doesn't have.
Several years ago one of the current Oswego Speedway owners and a drivers adult sister were hit while standing just beyond the inside edge of the speedway during a rain delay, push truck drivers and spectators in their own vehicles were circling the track trying to dry it. A vehicle looses control, hits another vehicle and hits the people waiting to cross the track. Talk about negligence, even the track owner is suing in this case. Which I find a bit ironic the speedway management asked these people to help dry the track now some of them are being sued.
You called it Leaders Edge, it's not a problem until something happends.
Patti