WHAT NASCAR LEARNED AT POCONO TODAY

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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.


updated by @tim-leeming: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

I'm assuming they learned little? Anyway...that should ring a bell for nascar, Kasey Kahne's wreck in June and two bad wrecks today. But that's just this year. Remember back in 2002 when Steve Park had a bad wreck here. In 87 with Davey Allison, When Richard Petty broke a leg here and when Earnhardt broke a rib. or vise versa. Anyway, They need to make some MAJOR changes to the track, but hey, that's nascar for ya........

I wonder if Nascar or Pocono safety personnel learned that they need a better response to a wrecked race car. I kept hearing how the Elliott Sadler accident was the hardest hit anyones seen since Don Mactavich and yet Elliott gathered his thoughts, unhooked his belts and helmet, made his way out of the car in a LOT of pain, kneeled down on the ground and finally laid down next to the car. Not a safety person near him. Did he walk to the infield car center or did someone finally show up to drive him?

They finally showed up..........but that was one of the slowest responses by safety crews that I have seen in a long time - probably a good thing his car wasn't on fire. Another very obvious thing was the extremely poor design of the guard rails in the area where Elliot hit - the design engineers on that deal must have been smoking something the day they designed that.

Safer barriers on the inside rails would help but Pocono's biggest problem is the grass on the back side of the track. It's over when a car get's on it. The entire area should be paved. When Greg Moore was killed in Fontanna several years ago they paved the entire section on the back stretch.Petty suffered a broken neck there in 1980 when he was hit in the drivers door by Darrell Waltrip. Also there has been more than one driver who has broken the boiler plate in turn one backing in hard.This track is treacherous for sure and is the most dangerous facility they run on.

In this day and age the barries such as th Safer ones need to be addressed at all tracks. Also the reponse time was way too long. As a paramedic who has worked at NASCAR races you have to wait till they say go. So who is at fault , Nascar or the safety crews this time.