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Any track can bite you at any time. Every crash is different and the outcome unknown until it happens. Speed yes adds to that risk, but so does as a driver taking every precaution you can to make your car as safe as possible,that is partial up to the track and sanctioning bodies but also the driver. If you choice to race with minimal required safety equipment that is on the driver, if you as a driver feel a track is too fast don't run it. It is a reward vs risk situation which comes back to, do you as a driver feel as if you can control the risk enough to race that at that track that night.
Since we seem to be talking about Belleville in general I will share a couple stories I heard after we lost Bryan. One involves an owner mechanic, he tells me that hewent once in the past 10 years and as they were practicing or Qualifying and he said he looked up and said this if F'ing stupid and packed up his midgets and has not been back.
The other is a guy that was a regular in Midget and ran well with USAC in the 90's. He said he ran Belleville in the 90's once and said it was stupid fast and that the right front wheel would almost fit under the guardrail. He said that was the only time he ran there and had no desire to go back.
Closing rates and trying to stop a car on a track that fast has to be absolutely crazy. If a driver wants to race at a track like Belleville that is his or her choice or until the insurance company decides it is too much of a risk to insure a track that they feel is too much of a risk for them then they will race these tracks.
How do we slow them done I don't know, do we need to, me as a driver yes some of these track are getting too fast for the safety of the cars and the facility. Safer Barriers and taller better fencing is needed at many tracks.
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