Now SAFER walls were invented for NASCAR...

[Insomniac]

SAFER barriers were invented during a safety overhaul that resulted from the 2001 death of Dale Earnhardt. The walls were developed by Dean Sicking at the University of Nebraska and are currently installed in some form at every track used by NASCAR's top series.
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=2&id=3276794

:shakehead

I give the IRL plenty of crap for safety, but they played a big part in funding the creation of SAFER.

[Indy]

Shameful.

The truth is that IMS deserves far more credit for SAFER barriers than the Luddite fools at NASCAR.



Furthermore, someone posted that the crowd cheered when Gordon wrecked. :shakehead

[nrc]

:rofl:

Full credit to the Gomer King for whatever money he pitched in but that's just deliciously ironic. Part of the problem at gomer central is the "not invented here" syndrome. Unless it's something they can take credit for they'll swear to the ends of the earth that it's unnecessary or not proven. So it's just too funny that the other gomers are rewriting the history on how the Safer wall came about.

[mueber]

Course ya all know that racin' was INvented by Big Bill France in 1949.

[chop456]

^ And he was instrumental in the advancement of driver safety.


Or not.

[Accipiter]

Well, Earnhardt's death was the reason they got installed at tracks other than Indy. But NASCAR deserve as much credit for it as Al Gore does for the Internet.

[Wheel-Nut]

So why do the NASCAR drivers cry foul now when they crash into a non-SAFER wall?

[OW]

Wonder if NASCRAP will take this too....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear-view_mirror

"The earliest known semblance of a rear-view mirror mounted on a motor vehicle appeared in Ray Harroun's Marmon racecar at the inaugural Indianapolis 500 race in 1911."

Please don't call me a Gomer...it's just an interesting fact that I've always thought interesting...

[High Sided]

wasn't it these guy's that help get the safer barrier to nascar?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/motorsports/news/2000/05/12/nemechek/

rip

[TKGAngel]

Jeff Burton speaks out on safety and Gordon's crash

http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=2&id=3281376


Gordon was not hurt when he made violent head-on impact with the inside barrier at the start of the LVMS backstretch.

That portion of the wall did not have the SAFER Barrier. Drivers also complained about the angle of the concrete wall, which allows safety vehicles to enter the backstretch.

"Greg Moore was killed [in a 1999 Champ Car event] hitting a wall shaped that way at California," Burton said. "When we don't let history teach us, we're being hard-headed. We have to continue to study the shape design and impact angles of a wall and move forward."