Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : NASCAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (900)	2/21/2001 6:38:02 AM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6950

Unfortunately the problem is a physics thing. The body can withstand like 30 G's for a brief second. That impact can drop over 100g's on the body. Watched a special several years ago on the work that Nascar was doing on the walls. Dale's accident was the exact kind that they were looking at. They are working hard at an economical way to make a wall that will move and dissipate some of that force while still keeping the cars on the track. Only ones they have come up with at that point would be destroyed on impact. Perhaps saving the driver but ending the race for several hours until the wall was rebuilt. Mr. Earnhardt will be sorely missed but I am sure that until the car actually smacked the wall his thoughts were, well I'm going to wreck my car but Mike and Jr. are going to be 1 and 2, what a great day at Daytona.