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Postby expat » Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:16 am

Time to re-evaluate life maybe :o

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Re: Luckiest racing driver in the world??

Postby ShaneG_old » Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:20 am

I remember this wreck, he's even luckier that it happened in practice. If all 43 cars had been out, he wouldn't have lived.
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Re: Luckiest racing driver in the world??

Postby patchz » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:12 am

The angle that he hit the wall reminds me of the Ernhardt crash at Daytona. Makes you wonder whether the changes made after might have saved the lives of these two.
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Re: Luckiest racing driver in the world??

Postby ShaneG_old » Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:49 am

The angle that he hit the wall reminds me of the Ernhardt crash at Daytona. Makes you wonder whether the changes made after might have saved the lives of these two.



Neither of the two guys in these videos died.
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Re: Luckiest racing driver in the world??

Postby patchz » Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:08 am

The angle that he hit the wall reminds me of the Ernhardt crash at Daytona. Makes you wonder whether the changes made after might have saved the lives of these two.


Neither of the two guys in these videos died.
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Re: Luckiest racing driver in the world??

Postby Fozzer » Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:15 am

Time to take up Fishing as a sport....?

...and don't fall in the river!

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Re: Luckiest racing driver in the world??

Postby ShaneG_old » Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:50 am

Another thing, is that the damage to these two looked a lot worse than Dale's car, as I remember it. In fact, I was very surprised at the amount of visible damage to these two. 



That's because when these two crashes occurred, the cars were still largely based on, and still included a large portion of their road going counterparts.  ;) 

Dale's car and today's version of the car share only the roof panel. The rest is a purpose built race car. Kind of defeats the name of "stock car". :'(  ::)

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Re: Luckiest racing driver in the world??

Postby patchz » Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:53 am

[quote][quote]Another thing, is that the damage to these two looked a lot worse than Dale's car, as I remember it. In fact, I was very surprised at the amount of visible damage to these two.
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Re: Luckiest racing driver in the world??

Postby ShaneG_old » Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:43 am

Waltrip's crash was in 1990,  but I was wrong about Harmon's crash, it was 2002, but still before they got the safer barrier.

The one before Waltrips that I was thinking of was Rusty Wallace's fun ride down the straight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ib5bxdOrc
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Re: Luckiest racing driver in the world??

Postby patchz » Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:01 pm

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Waltrip's crash was in 1990,
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