Originally Posted by Puppy:
If you are viewing this post, you are on IOW and thus your involvement with sprint cars is likely more than just casual. So you have seen countless sprint cars and midgets clear fences through the years. Guess what? Every track I go to I see people standing right up next to the fence in the pit area, I even do it myself. Why? Because I want the best view I can get. Most tracks have a sign, DONT NOT STAND HERE! Nobody listens... The thing that bugs me here is this guy Jonr suggesting that people in the pits are "So innocent and have had their rights stripped from them because they bought a pit pass". Of course I don't like that this happened, but you cant blame the track only, those people CHOSE to stand where they were standing, most likely knowing what is possible And they had the RIGHT to walk a few feet back and watch from there, but they didn't.
So tired of the "victim" mentality in our modern society. It's your life folks... LOOK OUT FOR YOURSELF!!!!
Another question is, how high do they start building fences? the higher you go, the weaker the fence will be at the top which would probably involve a beefier foundation/lower portion of the fence. How many tracks can afford this and stay in business?
I hope everyone recovers from this and can move on happy and healthy....
You missed the point that I was trying to make. My point which I have made several times on this board is that dirt track racing is far behind every other racing group when it comes to safety. NASCAR went through a huge effort to improve the safety after Dale's death. NHRA did it after Medlin's death. IndyCar did it after Wheldon's death.
Yet, dirt track racing continues to battle the same issues that we have for years. We don't learn from our mistakes. We do the same stupid stuff over and over. When we lose a star like BC, we all get emotional and sad, but yet we never use the event to change the safety of our sport.
Are all of us smart enough to know not to stand by the fence? Yes, but we still do it. Are all of us smart enough to look at a pit stand and know that it is not safe? yes, but we still sit in it. My point is that everyone should be looking at the way things are done with a new view. We should start protecting ourselves from ourselves. We should be smarter than we are.