You make many good points in your posting. To blame the "track" without knowing more about the situation is misguided and unprofessional...and to "accept" this kind of situation without critical evaluation is also not valuable. Our sport needs to look at all serious incidents in a measured, professional way. Everything from the driver's safety equipment/car to the track's physical facility to the safety team's response to the incident needs to be examined. We need not look for perfection, as we will not find it. We need to look to learn from it...to avoid the same mistakes...and make our sport even more safe. If we do not improve, we are going backwards. Our thoughts and prayers are with this driver's family.