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Mr. Ford95 · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 1907 Location: Orange, VA

bald, the seat was a Lajoie seat. Those are the safest known seats on the market.

Looking at side by side replays of Reut's and Dale's, Dale hit at a more deadly angle than Reut. Reut bounced off at more of a glancing blow, Dale just flat stopped dead, he never bounced off the wall with any type of glancing blow. Dale hit at the 11 o clock position which allowed the car to drive into the wall, Reut hit at just past 12 so the back end was swinging around which caused the brunt of the hit to be lessened since he was bouncing off the wall instead of driving into it. Anything between a 9 to 11 o clock hit on the wall will hurt worse or if you hit dead flat on the drivers side as your head has the potential to actually smakc the wall like Jerry Nadeau's did at Richmond. Ask Skinner when he broke his shoulder at Chicagoland after hitting at a 9 position. The lateral force was too great for his bones. Or Johnny Benson at Daytona who did the same when it looked like a slight nudge of the wall. At least Reut is safe and sound. Just have to keep getting safer, which the COT will do. Gets the driver's further inside the car to give them more crush zone on the drivers side. The cars will crash much like the Open Wheel cars do, they explode. Ward Burton found out at the Bristol test Wednesday. Didn't hit hard but the car was trashed way beyond repair.

yoopr · Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 12866

If I had a choice, and people don't have many choices when they Wreck, I'd much rather hit a angle shot at the wall then a head on shot.
The entire point was that after Dale's wreck the safer walls have saved lives.
Proof positive when Reutimann crashed

Mr. Ford95 · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 1907 Location: Orange, VA

Every wreck is different with different variables. Yes, the safety advances have saved a number of lives since 2001. The COT will further advance that even though a small wreck can end your day.

yoopr · Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 12866

What do you think of the COT? I only saw a small glimpse of them the other day and from what I heard the drivers saying about them they weren't too pleased with them.

When they were hooked up, which didn't seem to be often, they looked really fast.

Mr. Ford95 · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 1907 Location: Orange, VA

I like it, looks like the cars from the early 90's, for example, the cars you see in Days of Thunder only with a splitter like the Truck Series has and a wing like Honda's have. They are slightly wider than the current one's which will help with grip and downforce. Jr was quoted as saying the car felt great at Bristol. Said it gets into the corners real well, drives better than the current one's there. That is surprising since everyone kept saying the cars were nothing but a 4 wheel slide thru the corners on all the previous test tracks. Either they were playing peek a boo or they suddenly found the right setups.

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