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Very sad story. Not to sound like a freak but anyone know where the video is?

ESPN.com has it

 

Truly a sad situation. I was watching when it happened, and they pronounced him dead really quickly. Somewhere between 170mph and 206mph is where they estimated his speed (when I was watching) and he ran straight into the gearbox, taking away the entire front end of his car.

 

Thoughts and prayers going out to a fellow racers family.

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Eric do you realy think the fact that he was in a IRL car made a differance

Absolutely. The IRL is the only racing environment in which:

A: those cars

B: Race at those tracks

 

That accident wouldn't have happened anywhere but a super speedway, and of all the super speedway race cars, the IRL car is the most likely to get you killed in such accidents. NACSAR, he'd have walked away and made a and ESPN highlight reel. You dont have alot of options when you're balls out on a speedway, and the carbon fibre cursh caskets that the IRL races are simply dangerous, ask Gil Defaren. HEll, Formula One, ask Ralf Schumacher if carbon firbre cars belong on speedways.

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