Nascar Driver Stuns to Qualify for Championship with GameCube Move

Re:Nascar Driver Stuns to Qualify for Championship with Game... by dandare on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:56AM (#33418606)

Any irregularity or structural weakness in that wall could have killed him and drivers around him.

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Re:Nascar Driver Stuns to Qualify for Championship with Game... by chrisco255 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:34AM (#33418884)

Martinsville has a SAFER Barrier, which "consists of a high-strength, tubular steel skin that distributes the impact load to energy-absorbing foam cartridges", installed along the outside of the track: https://galvanizeit.org/project-gallery/nascar-safer-barrier

Still a risky move for a number of reasons, but wrecks are expected and happen all the time in NASCAR races.

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Re:Nascar Driver Stuns to Qualify for Championship with Game... by prego_xo on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:47AM (#33421923)

I think walls that are made with racecars hitting them at top speed in mind would be able to handle a distributed stress.

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