I tried to watch the Daytona 500 last night. Left after the 1st lap wreck. 500 miles to race and they are tearing up cars after 2.5 miles. Yikes. Turned back to the race a few times, always at a yellow. And then I see the Jet Dryer hits. Sorry, I want to watch racing, not cars being torn up. I think I'll stick to watching the 2 road races a year.
Actually after the lap 2 crash, there was little more than a lone spin out or two until the x open wheel driver ran into the clean up truck during caution. The ensuing final 40 laps from there, twas full contact racing....
Now that was some good ole boy racin right thar :lol: So 180deg different than, "oh I chipped a finger nail and I got a smuge of grease on my pant leg" Formula one pretty boy racing.......it's good to be an American today! :cornut: We giter done no matter what happens!
Might as well shorten the race to 100 Laps or less. They pretty much just road around till the half way money and then waited till the end to really make any moves... At times it did have some good racing but most were scared to touch each other much.. No one wanted to be like E. Sadler and cause a wreck..
So no one is going to stipulate on Patrick crashing out of 3 consecutive races on 3 consecutive days? I know all three were "not her fault", but one has to wonder.
Some video of the fire... [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqSm5BwGcqc[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyN_ulJKwok&hd=1[/ame]
Longer version without the breaks: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC1L4n_4f0E]2012 Daytona 500 Juan Pablo Montoya crashes into jet dryer! | Extended Live Version - YouTube[/ame]
He complained about suspension vibrations before hand, and you could see sparks from underneath his car right before he slid up the track. They figured something must have broke, maybe a tie rod or something? I have a feeling protocol will change about passing those jet dryer trucks after this?
Any racer worth his salt would have done the same thing Montoya did. Yes it was yellow, but he was trying to catch the field. He was caught out by a mechanical failure. For me I do not see this incident as his fault. Stuff happens. Glad everyone involved is OK. That could have ended very badly. And why did it take sooo long to get a fire truck there?
Being a former racer, I've done close to race speed coming back around to catch up the pack. Granted, mine has been on tracks under 1.2 mile, but still applies. Aside from the major fire, if that dryer and safety truck hadn't been there, he'd have turned almost straight into the third turn wall. Granted, it made for a spectacular incident, but the crash could have been far worse for him even with the safer barrier. Still, sure made him look like a idiot. My daughter named him Juan PYRO Montoya!
Wasn't his fault, as soon as whatever it was broke, Juan was reduced to being nothing more than a passenger.... 2 cents
I agree not his fault.. and probably a one in a million chance it will happen again, but I bet there are rules/changes in place before long.
Have you ever raced? I mean raced Scott, not track days. If you have you should understand doing everything to drive the hardest & do the best you can. Sometimes you do things that you think about later & wonder what the hell you were thinking. That being said you'd do them again if the circumstance presented itself. Just my take as one who used to race.
Does anyone here actually know what the speed limit is under a yellow? The announcers said it was a perfectly normal speed for a yellow....so?? But like I said earlier, I bet things will change when those trucks are actually on the racing surface.