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Charlie Yannetti · 10-08-2008, 11:14 AM

Great post Jason......... and I will totally agree with your 2nd point that NHRA needs to improve on safety features at all sanctioned tracks........ I have seen accidents where cars got tangled up in guard rails in the shut down areas whch caused devastating injuries and in one case a fatality......... the tracks made statements claiming that the barriers would be changed, but as far as I know, have not........ but NHRA continues to hold races at these tracks without demanding improvement....... I have stopped attending races where there are guard rails instead of concrete barriers for the past couple of years....... if more racers boycotted unsafe tracks, or at least made their feelings known to their Division Directors of NHRA, maybe we could race under safer conditions......

Unfortunately, there will always be excessive braking and a a result, some crashes........ this is unacceptable, but if it happens there should be safe crash barriers designed to prevent serious injuries or death........

Like stated earlier, racing to 1000 ft is only a bandaid..... it will change things temporarily..... but not really change anything........ NASCAR did not shorten the length of their races because of crashes near the end of the race........ they changed the tracks and made them safer.......

10-08-2008, 11:14 AM	#15
Charlie Yannetti Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alpine, NJ Posts: 568 Likes: 188 Liked 192 Times in 83 Posts	Re: Just read this on DRO Great post Jason......... and I will totally agree with your 2nd point that NHRA needs to improve on safety features at all sanctioned tracks........ I have seen accidents where cars got tangled up in guard rails in the shut down areas whch caused devastating injuries and in one case a fatality......... the tracks made statements claiming that the barriers would be changed, but as far as I know, have not........ but NHRA continues to hold races at these tracks without demanding improvement....... I have stopped attending races where there are guard rails instead of concrete barriers for the past couple of years....... if more racers boycotted unsafe tracks, or at least made their feelings known to their Division Directors of NHRA, maybe we could race under safer conditions...... Unfortunately, there will always be excessive braking and a a result, some crashes........ this is unacceptable, but if it happens there should be safe crash barriers designed to prevent serious injuries or death........ Like stated earlier, racing to 1000 ft is only a bandaid..... it will change things temporarily..... but not really change anything........ NASCAR did not shorten the length of their races because of crashes near the end of the race........ they changed the tracks and made them safer.......