Indiana Open Wheel - Highlights of MSCS Sprints @ Terre Haute

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Originally Posted by Charles Nungester (Post 39251)

Thanks for that guys, Really wanted to make it but couldn't.

Is that dust a normal problem at THAT? I remember a TV race a few years back Pletch won that was incredibly dusty. Also that wreck was 15 seconds from first car to last involved. Did you notice the car hitting the roll cage and flipping the first car that came to rest upside down, Back over?

I do believe race cievers or radios could have helped prevent much of this, Im glad it wasn't as bad as it looked.

Thanks again!
Chuck

Chuck, the first car that flipped was Dusty Wright (very apropos name), and the car that came in was Daron Clayton. Daron admitted to me on Monday night at Kelly's that when he came through the dust cloud and had a car parked upside down right in his path that he purposely spun the car sideways so as not to hit Wright's exposed caged with the nose of his car. I do believe Daron's quick thinking probably saved Dusty from serious injury. Daron knows what it's like to be hit with the nose of another car while lying upside down, as he had an incident about 3 years ago at Kokomo in which he was struck by Billy Puterbaugh's car.

I was glad that Bill Rose's car (which is the black car that comes flipping into the screen) did not hit Clayton in the head with the right rear, as it come very close to doing just that. We were also equally as lucky that Kenny Biro (3rd lipping car) did not land on anyone else as he took what appears to be the roughest ride, and that Ricky Williams (4th and final flipping car) didn't either. As bad as that crash was, it could have been so much worse. Fortunately, everybody walked away unscathed, and amazingly, Bill Rose made repairs and came back to an 8th place finish.

I agree that radios would have likely kept the last two cars from piling in, if they had known there were stopped race cars on the cushion in turn 3, but what do you do?

DM