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Originally Posted by PVDA
Everyone thinks it's better to hit nice soft tyres compared with hard concrete but it's not the initial hit but what results from it you must consider. There are places for tyre bundles (proper bundles chained together not earth filled tyre walls) but this is in lower speed head on situations not high speed glancing blows like we saw yesterday or in the past at PI & other tracks around the country.
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I hear you talking Pee Vee, she is a high speed track and you are right to point out the shortcomings...for me, its the bottom of the main straight, there is going to be a big one there some day (possibly a T Bone coming out of the loop!!).
PI is definately a candidate for some of the new technology energy absorbing crash fences...the trouble with air filled tyre barriers is that if hit the right way, the chains give way and the tyres get carried away.
The conveyor-belt-fronted tyre barriers are probably better in this respect, so long as there is sufficient tyre bundle depth/strength behind them.
Bottom line...Motor Racing is Dangerous
