Sterling Cling?
 

What in the World?

One of the dumbest things I have ever seen. Hope JMac is OK, because it did not look like he was OK. I think he slammed his gourd into the front of the cage.

That one makes the case for needing some good ole pit justice. Put a knot on his head maybe he won’t drive like that again. Glad J Mac got out under his own power

Went to a Sprint car race and a Midget race broke out.

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Id say he ran out of talent, no way he was going to make that run and still hold the line.

That's not what Im upset about. I really couldn't tell what was going on at the accident site with JMAC. But replay and I even seen it in the live feed his whole upper body flailed around and his head hit either the cage or the wheel. He was slumped over. And two or three guys casually got to the car. THEN HAD HIM GET OUT ON HIS OWN. No backboard etc.

I could be totally wrong and jason mght have said, I got it. IDK but good safety teams would have asked or demanded he take precautions like a backboard removal. As it was Jason could barely stand on his own and sat on the track for a bit. then went to the hospital.

Hope Im wrong, Hope Jmac is ok, he sat out Burg due to concussion.
Hope Im also wrong that the crew wasn't taking every precaution necessary. Like I said. I don't know and you can't make a driver stay put.

Same kid that put one of Arizona's best into retirement with injuries after plowing into disabled car at full throttle when the YELLOW was out

Yea not fond of him, he tore a lot of stuff at cb last year. What I’ve seen of him in a sprint this year wasn’t the best either

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Today's protocol is to allow people to "self extricate" from traumatic incidents if they are able. Put a cervical collar on them and let them get out on their own if they can. Backboards are only for carrying. If you have to use a backboard to carry someone, take them off the backboard when you get to where you had to carry them to. I'm not saying anything about the situation or the skill and knowledge of the safety crew, just saying what medicine says today.

Any video of this crash?

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Originally Posted by jdeuel87:
Same kid that put one of Arizona's best into retirement with injuries after plowing into disabled car at full throttle when the YELLOW was out

Missed that story. Can you provide details?

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It was a really bad mistake by Cling, might be better for everyone if he sat out the rest of the weekend. Glad to see J Mac get out after watching him getting bounced around in the cockpit. I know belts stretch upon impact but that was pretty scary.

It wasn’t pretty but it didn’t look like that horrible of an indiscretion after watching the video. It looked like he got a bad start, tried to make up for it... and probably didn’t see him up there. Most people may assume there was a car up there but I’m sure he didn’t think he was about to wholesale dump someone as well as himself. It was a pretty bad but it seems like everyone jumped on the bandwagon on him... I’ve seen plenty just as bad as this that never get this much attention.

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It was in a heat race. Heat 5 I think. Right on the start.

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It was a weird deal. Initial start of Heat 5. JMac got an early jump from the outside, Cling from the pole didn't go so the flagman was indicating no start (held out green but not waving). Cling came from way behind and got into JMac going into T1 with both flipping and writing off both cars. I couldn't see clearly so I really am not sure how or why they got into each other.

Cling just plain F Ed up big time. My thought originally was did his throttle stick. But after watching that replay again it’s so clear it was very poor driving on his part.

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Think Cling was using the same brakes that Windom uses.

I uploaded the video I took from the TV
https://youtu.be/cp7AOBr8Sms

Because the brakes on a sprint car the first lap of the heat race are the same as a silver crown car the last lap of the feature..🙄🙄🙄

Just guessing from the video, Cling was the only guy who didn't realize it was a no start.

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I think usac needs to change the way the don't like the start of a race other than just holding a green flag still waiting for them to see yellow lights on the back chute. I do think some drivers don't see them not waving the green. Hold the yellow in front of the green until you like the start. An old practice. Use two hands. Start them close to the starter not coming out of the turn. Over the years I have seen many a bad crash because of this practice. Or show them the yellow light in one if the start isn't to the starter's liking. I know, old school thinking :)

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Originally Posted by duel:
I think usac needs to change the way the don't like the start of a race other than just holding a green flag still waiting for them to see yellow lights on the back chute. I do think some drivers don't see them not waving the green. Hold the yellow in front of the green until you like the start. An old practice. Use two hands. Start them close to the starter not coming out of the turn. Over the years I have seen many a bad crash because of this practice. Or show them the yellow light in one if the start isn't to the starter's liking. I know, old school thinking :)

In addition to the flag and the lights, all drivers have a raceceiver in their ear in which the race director speaks through to tell them when a yellow or red flag occurs or where to line up. The command for a yellow on an aborted start is given by the time the drivers reach turn 1 where they are told to spread out and to roll out of the throttle after exiting turn two.

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Back in the 70s that move would have gotten his ass knocked in the dirt. Could you imagine if in place of that being Jmac it was Bob Kinser, I"m pretty sure the cigar would have dropped lol. Some people are saying he didn"t see Jmac up on the outside, How could he not see him he (Cling) was behind at the start, you always know somebody will be on the outside on the start, a black eye might do wonders for that kid :34:

He’s lucky it wasn’t jack Hewitt back in the day can you say foot broke off in his ass