Re: Kokomo crash
 

From the video it looks like Ballou was to blame. If blame is required that is.

Re: Kokomo crash
 

Scary Video, I am glad they will both be ok. The real lucky one is whoever went through that crash in the white car, just barely making it in between The flipping cars, amazing.

Re: Kokomo crash
 

Good hard racing............Nobody to BLAME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Kokomo crash
 

Looked like a racing deal to me. Both good runs and going for the same spot. My guess is Hunter thought that Ballou was going to stay in the middle and give him room on the bottom. Both guys are great racers that put on a tremendous show on the high side at the Burg and didn't see much blame there just unfortunate.

Re: Kokomo crash
 

Very good video of the accident. I would say Robert got hurt when the car hit the wall backwards slamming his head back against his seat.

I really don't think Hunter did anything wrong here. Looked like he (Hunter) was keeping his car low in his line and they just got together. I don't think Robert saw him down there. Just my opinion.....??

Hate to see anybody get hurt though.

Re: Kokomo crash
 

Great job by the 3rd place car to miss it.

Re: Kokomo crash
 

Originally Posted by ShaneMugavin57:
Great job by the 3rd place car to miss it.

Originally Posted by Dave Rudisell:
Scary Video, I am glad they will both be ok. The real lucky one is whoever went through that crash in the white car, just barely making it in between The flipping cars, amazing.

I believe the car was 27 Ryan Kaplan

Re: Kokomo crash
 

I wouldn't really put the blame on either driver. I mean, it's racing. Robert didn't think Hunter was going to close in that fast, and Hunter was going for position. There's really no reason to blame either of them. But that being said, this was a heat race and both were in transfer positions, so there really wasn't a need to dive down in there like Hunter did. Car owners will remember that, but as fans go, they don't have a reason to blame either one.

Re: Kokomo crash
 

This was a racing incident with no fault to either. By the time Ballou realized he was down there it was too late to go anywhere else. I saw Darland and ? someone else hit like that coming off 4 on the USAC live video from Lawrenceburg and both saved it. It's racing.

Re: Kokomo crash
 

Originally Posted by Speedracer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnI9SFp22aE

Mills will probably have a much better quality/video than mine whenever he gets it up on his site.

And a side note you might want to turn the volume down when u view the clip I had the volume setting set up a little to high.

What stood out to me was the sound that Robert's car (the cage, I assume) makes when it smacks the wall. It sounded like a gun going off. I'm just thankful that he came out of this without being injured that badly.

Jerry