pit wall

[Crash Test]

Does it worry you folk that there is nothing there protecting the pit crews if a car goes out of control. As seen at Talladega, if a car gets away from the driver, you are helpless. Will it take until people are killed until something is done? Even then if there are no people in pit lane, the existing pit wall is only a couple of feet tall, and the car would wind up in the grandstand.

I know that this wall is only yay high so the crew can get their equipment over it, and the pit wall aint there just in case tyres get away from the crew and don't hit the cars.

[Joe Fan]

It doesn't bother me because: 1) drivers should have the car slowed down in that section of the track and 2) considering who had the major problem getting slowed down entering the pits all day--Dave Blaney who is a rookie and former World of Outlaws driver that has only driven stock cars for about three years.

[Crash Test]

No no, what i a worried about is if a car on the track loses it, goes over the grass on the tri-oval, and wipes out cars and crews in the pit lane. Remember back to the BGN race on Saturday when a car got tapped into a wide spin which ended against the wall just before pit in. Now what if that happened a bit further around the track; the driver would have no control and you would wind up with half a dozen corpses- not pretty.

[indyracefan]

I agree that a danger exists, and perhaps a 3-foot wall should be erected between the tri-oval infield and the pits to serve as a barrier,....pretty limited to the wall height in the pits for obvious reasons. I also am an advocate for the pit crews to at the very least wear helmets. Most generally these days pit accidents are rare thanks in great part to the pit-road speed limits enforced at all tracks.

[This message has been edited by indyracefan (edited 17 April 2000).]

[Heeltoe6]

The wall between the edge of pit road and the trioval gras is the best solution. Works well at Fontana and MIS