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devilmaster
07-27-03, 11:55 AM
Should be an interesting spot. Pre-Race starts at 12:30 pm est.

http://www.motorsportstv.com/07272003.htm

http://www.cart.com/News/Article.asp?ID=6628

Winston Cup Pre-Race Show Looks at CART Safety Team

Heralded across the motorsports landscape as the standard to which at-the-track safety services should be held, the CART Champ Car Simple Green Safety Team will be featured in a video piece to be aired as part of TNT’s NASCAR pre-race show leading up to this weekend’s Pennsylvania 500 event at Pocono Raceway.

The network’s color analyst and racer Wally Dallenbach Jr. (son of former Champ Car star and Chief Steward Wally Dallenbach Sr.) accompanied a film crew to the Molson Indy Toronto two weeks ago to find out what makes the Safety Team one of the best quick-response outfits anywhere in motorsports.

The piece contains interviews with series Director of Medical Affairs Dr. Steve Olvey and series Chief Orthopedic Consultant Dr. Terry Trammell as well as with Director of Safety Lon Bromley and Champ Car World Series drivers Jimmy Vasser and Adrian Fernandez. The feature will air at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday afternoon.

The piece is another in the recent spate of television broadcast features that shine the spotlight on the CART Champ Car Simple Green Safety Team, including a video segment on HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on Alex Zanardi, which included footage of the team aiding in the 2001 accident at EuroSpeedway in which the Safety Team saved Zanardi’s life immediately after
a devastating crash.

The CART Champ Car Simple Green Safety Team is in its 19th year in existence and carries 40 professionals along with their specially-prepared response vehicles to each race along the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford schedule. The response vehicles are just one component of the safety team, which also includes a state-of-the-art mobile
medical unit that allows CART physicians to administer immediate aid to potentially-injured drivers. (CART Press Release) (7/27)

Steve

RaceChic
07-27-03, 12:12 PM
Out of curiosity will it be aired with the NASCAR race on every channel that airs it? I'm in Canuckada. :D

devilmaster
07-27-03, 12:34 PM
In Canada its on TSN.....

and its on TNT.....

And they might not show it.... they just announced the weather may play a factor today, so the race has been pushed up.

So we'll see.

Steve

Turn7
07-27-03, 01:28 PM
They announced that it wouldn't be shown today. It will air sometime in August.

cart7
07-28-03, 09:12 AM
Originally posted by Turn7
They announced that it wouldn't be shown today. It will air sometime in August.
A PR dilema maybe? Didn't Nascar just announce they saw no need for a Simple Green like safety team to follow the series around? Yep, local EMT's that have no idea what kind of injuries racing drivers are prone to in a crash are far better than a specialist team, and cheaper too. :gomer: