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Boomer The Cannon posted:Buddy Baker is retiring from MRN due to lung cancer Well gently caress. CBJSprague24 posted:A woman and her adult son are suing for medical costs resulting from minor injuries following the wreck at Daytona, in part because it was their first race and they "expected the catch fence to work". Um, pretty sure all that fancy fine print on the ticket will cause a judge to laugh them out of court. Particularly if they have to sue in Florida (I have no idea how any of this works.) Top Hats Monthly posted:Is it possible this was just a freak accident and we don't need to tear the whole thing down I really don't know how that could be called anything other than a freak accident. There was that time that girl got hit by a hockey puck and died, and it's not like the NHL stopped happening. Life is dangerous sometimes.
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Get rid of restrictor plates and let cars actually be faster than one another. That'll keep big ones from happening like this.
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Jul 8, 2015 02:43
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Elitist Bitch posted:Um, pretty sure all that fancy fine print on the ticket will cause a judge to laugh them out of court. Particularly if they have to sue in Florida (I have no idea how any of this works.) Well, that fine print is really directed at chucklefucks like that fence climber last year, or some drunk that trips and falls in the stands. When there's a pattern of spectators getting injured at the track every year, any potential lawsuit gains a bit more traction. In this case, just like with Larson's, NASCAR is gonna settle for thousands of dollars to shut the story up. IMO they're saving the court battle for the time when they actually kill a dozen people. Panzeh posted:Get rid of restrictor plates and let cars actually be faster than one another. That'll keep big ones from happening like this. Uhhhhh..... On the surface, I agree with you, but if this weekends crash happened with only 3 or 4 cars, except Dillon was doing 225mph instead of 195mph, we'd probably have that dozen dead. You can't speed the cars up until the spectators are far more protected than they are currently. That's why I want them to install a secondary fence. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jul 8, 2015 |
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Jul 8, 2015 02:53
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Can we swap out Curtis Turner for one more year for the Hall of Fame for Buddy Baker? I'd prefer not to have a Pat Burns moment with Buddy, if we can...
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Jul 8, 2015 02:57
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VikingSkull posted:oh jesus christ not Buddy too God damnit. Boomer The Cannon posted:Can we swap out Curtis Turner for one more year for the Hall of Fame for Buddy Baker? Oh, he just hopped into the induction express lane. I hope he makes it that long.
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Jul 8, 2015 03:02
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On the other hand, no titles, so I get why he hasn't made it yet. Doesn't make it suck any less, though, when loving Mary Jane France is there. Maybe the IMHF in Talladega is the one true HoF 
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Jul 8, 2015 03:08
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Steve Langley, Elmo Langley's son, posts in a FB group I'm in. Buddy and Elmo were great friends, and their families were close I guess. According to Steve, Buddy is in very bad shape and is bedridden. I guess they were keeping it hush hush until the end, so if what he says is true, Buddy doesn't have much left 
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Jul 8, 2015 03:16
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Elitist Bitch posted:I really don't know how that could be called anything other than a freak accident. There was that time that girl got hit by a hockey puck and died, and it's not like the NHL stopped happening. Life is dangerous sometimes. That did lead to them and pretty much all other leagues putting up a catch net at opposite ends of the ice, though. They're barely noticeable on TV or in person, but I remember SI publishing a MASSIVE shitfit that a Blue Jackets season ticket holder threw about them.
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VikingSkull posted:Uhhhhh..... Yeah but without the plate that's not a wreck in the first place because Dillon isn't so crowded in.
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Jul 8, 2015 03:27
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VikingSkull posted:Steve Langley, Elmo Langley's son, posts in a FB group I'm in. Buddy and Elmo were great friends, and their families were close I guess. According to Steve, Buddy is in very bad shape and is bedridden. I guess they were keeping it hush hush until the end, so if what he says is true, Buddy doesn't have much left
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Jul 8, 2015 03:32
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Panzeh posted:Yeah but without the plate that's not a wreck in the first place because Dillon isn't so crowded in. Cars get air all the time at non plate tracks, like at Pocono: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aYSJ4HKu0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoLqfhgFj-w&t=97s Watkins Glen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FgeopsJKIM Atlanta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5MrquaBBXQ Fort Worth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiXEQe36YCU Dover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ4LEUmfSp0 Rockingham?????? Peanut President fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Jul 8, 2015 |
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Jul 8, 2015 03:51
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Panzeh posted:Yeah but without the plate that's not a wreck in the first place because Dillon isn't so crowded in. Yeah, I get that, but like pnut posted you don't need a pack to get airborne. At unrestricted speeds there's a good chance a guy running solo could lose it, get airborne, and go through the fence. Trust me, a Cup car going 230 hitting the fence that they have this very minute is going to go straight through it. Boomer The Cannon posted:Which group? the pre-72 group Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Jul 8, 2015 |
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Jul 8, 2015 04:03
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VikingSkull posted:Yeah, I get that, but like pnut posted you don't need a pack to get airborne. At unrestricted speeds there's a good chance a guy running solo could lose it, get airborne, and go through the fence. Trust me, a Cup car going 230 hitting the fence that they have this very minute is going to go straight through it.
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Jul 8, 2015 04:12
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Haha, thanks.
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Buddy Baker is retiring from MRN due to lung cancer Let me add to the train. gently caress.
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Jul 8, 2015 17:14
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I was thinking about this, and since tracks are tearing out seats anyway, let's just tear out the bottom dozen or so rows and build another fence or something. Those are the cheap seats anyway.
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Elitist Bitch posted:I was thinking about this, and since tracks are tearing out seats anyway, let's just tear out the bottom dozen or so rows and build another fence or something. Those are the cheap seats anyway. it'll never work also here, have a laugh courtesy of Buddy 
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Jul 8, 2015 21:12
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VikingSkull posted:it'll never work How the gently caress was that seventeen years ago? I'm gonna go tell some kids to get off my lawn now. I've always been partial to Eli Gold too. Elitist Bitch fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jul 8, 2015 |
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Jul 8, 2015 21:18
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Don't remind me, I graduated from high school in '98.
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Jul 8, 2015 21:52
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VikingSkull posted:Don't remind me, I graduated from high school in '98. I'm only a small number of years behind you there. I was on a r/NASCAR thread talking about the oldest race you remember, and people were talking about Earnhardt's death....I very clearly remember the last race of the 1992 season, the race that won Alan Kulwicki the championship, Petty's last race, Gordon's first. gently caress me, I'm too old to be on the internet. 
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Jul 8, 2015 22:31
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I remember Petty's last win 
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Jul 8, 2015 23:05
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VikingSkull posted:I remember Petty's last win Hell I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night.
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VikingSkull posted:I remember Petty's last win Yes but can you remember his last win he didn't cheat in? no because he cheated in all of them
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Peanut President posted:Yes but can you remember his last win he didn't cheat in? no because he cheated in all of them If you're not cheating, you're not trying to win
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Peanut President posted:Yes but can you remember his last win he didn't cheat in? no because he cheated in all of them the race to the next exit on the interstate he didn't win that one though
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anotherblownsave posted:If you're not cheating, you're not trying to win if you're not cheating, you're likely following the rules like a responsible person and not a child
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No, that's only what you say if foreign teams are winning in your series.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:Is it possible this was just a freak accident and we don't need to tear the whole thing down Right like that time edwards (i think) went into the fence a few years ago. Or the time that (I think it was larson) an engine and tire ended up in the stands because a car got air and went into the fence. I mean its not like its probably a 1.5 year avarage where a car ends up in the fence at a plate track (maybe my memory serves me wrong and I dont feel like googling) nascar keeps "fixing" the problem and it keeps happening because the real fix would piss off fans. The real problem is, poo poo like this happens when you have 30+ cars doing 195mph 3 wide all within 1 second of each other... it takes a good .3 to .5 seconds to react to what you see.. thats half the f-ing field at daytona or 'dega. When the cars are that close something "freak" is bound to happen.. if there's a 1 in 100 chance it happens and you roll the dice 30 times.. its going to happen around once every 3 sessions. As much as I first didn't like it.. bring back the 2 car tango super speedway package at least there was strategy, limitations of draft time and less deathy racing. I feel nascar isnt going to fix it until a driver or a fan ends up in a casket. tater_salad fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Jul 9, 2015 |
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Jul 9, 2015 02:51
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Two of the crashes you listed happened with the 2-car tango package. That aero package that encouraged cars to be in constant contact around turns and the trioval was really dangerous too.
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Alain Post posted:Two of the crashes you listed happened with the 2-car tango package. That aero package that encouraged cars to be in constant contact around turns and the trioval was really dangerous too. The one with the engine in the stands was 2013 2 car tango/train was earlier than that. Edit: leaders are 2 cars the rest are bunched up. https://youtu.be/zU8rIDyQbaY tater_salad fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jul 9, 2015 |
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Jul 9, 2015 03:32
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Nope, Larson's wreck was in a race that featured the two-car. Nationwide had a package that enabled it after Cup had lost it, and I'm pretty sure that's why you can only bump and not push in Xfinity now. Instead of watching that lovely quality version, watch this one instead. Two-car, pretty obviously so.
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Blah my bad.. Well then.. as others said make it so they have to lift in the corners then.. plate racing will kill someone and soon.
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Jul 9, 2015 12:41
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So you and I sitting at home, will have as much track time as SRA before the truck race tonight.
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Jul 9, 2015 21:49
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Boomer The Cannon posted:So you and I sitting at home, will have as much track time as SRA before the truck race tonight. More probably, I have about 500 laps in this week at Kentucky in a truck
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Jul 9, 2015 21:53
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Boomer The Cannon posted:So you and I sitting at home, will have as much track time as SRA before the truck race tonight. I didn't even know there was a truck race tonight.
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Jul 9, 2015 22:45
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the track is weeping, just like the fans gonna go anyway
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Jul 10, 2015 00:36
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hey SRA spin out JWT on the pace laps? kthanks
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Jul 10, 2015 00:42
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SRA, that save was the stuff of legends. Holy gently caress was that impressive 
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Jul 10, 2015 01:07
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Maybe every track needs weepers.
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dammit boomer come back
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