What a way for Dan to go out. He was a hell of a driver. Jimmie Johnson almost bought it at Charlotte Saturday night. A few years back before safer barriers and the Hans device and that probably would have been a fatal accident. No doubt about it, racing is just plain dangerous and cause there had been nearly a 5 year run with out anyone getting killed in the major racing circuits things may have become a bit complacent. Like I said....poor judgement may have been used to race the IRL at Vegas due to the high banking their and the inability of the field to spread out. 3 wide pack racing in the IRL may be extremely excitiing but it's far to dangerous. I remember thinking after the first 10 laps that Wow, this is going to be an exciting race. I was all ready on the edge of my seat.....and then the big one went down. Worst mass wreck I've ever seen.
Mine too. This could be a nail in the coffin for the IRL.