Glad Elliott Sadler is Okay

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After that hit he is lucky to walk away unharmed, if that happened just a few years ago things might have been different. Nascar either needs to mandate the track remove that part or drop the races there completely. I've never seen a motor come flying out like that before.
 
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I can't believe a camera didn't pick that up.

Pocono needs serious safety improvements. They already are in the process of making some, but this proves they need even more.
 
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lylsmorr said:
That was the nastiest wreck I personally have seen in a long, long time
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Agreed. I havent been following or watching NASCAR that long. For anyone to just walk away from that crash is amazing.
 
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Me too, omg.

He is really going to feel that this week. They said they were going to talk to him but did they? I never saw it.

Yay for the Biff!
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TennesseeFan07 said:
I can't believe a camera didn't pick that up.

Pocono needs serious safety improvements. They already are in the process of making some, but this proves they need even more.
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All the cameras that could were following the 2 car, I thought it a rare thing to happen as well.

Pocono has long been one of the more dangerous tracks, and upgrades have come slowly. There is no excuse for having the barrier jut out at an angle to the oncoming cars. I raced karts there and it was so bad, the WKA dropped it from the schedule when Pocono would not upgrade.

If this accident had happened in the older style car prior to head restraint requirements, Sadler would be seriously injured at best, or dead. Another legacy of Earnhardt.
 
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Elliott was lucky. It could have been worse. I can't ever remember an engine coming out od the car. Kurt had a nasty hit too but not as bad as Elliott.
 
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doozer said:
the indy cars quit racing there because of how unsafe it was.
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I didn't think of them, the track surface was so rough, it made it too dangerous for Indy car speeds.

Karts used a road course that used to run through the infield along with most of the tri-oval. With no suspension it was a teeth jarring ride. Then add concrete walls in bad places and very rough run-off areas, you had a recipe for disaster.
 
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Isn't where Elliott wrecked the same area that Steve Park and Dale Jr. wrecked several years ago? You'd have thought they would have learned. If they're not going to take that hill out, at least but SAFER barriers all along it instead of a puny guard rail. Like they said yesterday, no matter where you think a racecar can't crash, they can, and eventually probably will.
 
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Guys in the booth said that major upgrades were already approved @ PIR, including inside safer barriers, but the work had not been started because of the short time between spring and summer races.

Before the HANS device and carbon-fiber seat envelopes, Sadler would have died instantly. Incredible crash. Very scary.

PIR either gets it fixed or Nascar pulls racing there. My opinion.
 
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doozer said:
Sadler needs to run the truck series full time. he could dominate it.
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I would like to see him in a good Nationwide car full time too. If I were him I'd talk to Jr about fielding Aric Almirola in the #88 and Elliott in the #7 full time. I'd also see if Harvick would field him full time in the #2 truck. Like you sad he could compete for the truck championship if he ran full time. Than he could still run a partial Cup season if a team would have him to keep his foot in the door.

Sadler is a good guy but he just can't cut it Cup.
 
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not sure I've ever seen a engine knocked out of a car in a single car wreck like that .. terrible wreck and glad he walked away safe. Goes to show you that the improvements on the safety of the cars has come a long way ... 10 years ago, the results would have been different
 
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