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10/19/11, 8:44 AM   #2
Re: Airborne indy va. Nascar
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Originally Posted by dirt330 View Post
Anyone have stats on how many indy and nascar cars have gotten airborne in the past 5 or 10 years ? Racing is dangerous in all forms. The risk will always be there.
I know of two at least in NASCAR @ Talladega. Rusty Wallace and Carl Edwards both coming off of the tri-oval. Wallace ended up in the infield while Edwards was in the catch fence. And longer ago, Richard Petty was quite the show as well taking out a rather large section of catch fence there.
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