Bob Reed Crashed

[Stephen & Horace Johnson]

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[herbjr]

pics of bobs wreck.

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[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Stephen & Horace Johnson

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This concrete barrier SUCKS--just like the NHRA. I've seen more cars wrecked/damaged BECAUSE of that concrete retaining wall than all those previous years (1972-1989) of my race track attendance.

The overwhelming majority of drag cars do less than 150 mph on top end and as such this barrier is UNNECCESSARY.

From a fans' perspective that barrier absolutely RUINED watching the races from the ground level; ditto for taking pictures or videotaping the races.

Before that abominable wall was implemented starting in 1990 (thanks to the fuelers knocking on the 300 mph door back in 1988-89), if a car went out of shape, you had a very good chance of saving it from any body damage (or worse) by going off the track onto the very soft, deep, grass median BEFORE you contacted the guardrail; seen that many a time! Not to mention saving the clean up crew lots of work by simply pulling off the macadam onto the grass when an oil down occurs.

Too bad those concrete barriers are not retractable (like say, back another 60 feet from the edge of the track) those times when the fuelers and funnys are not running (like almost never) at ones track. Yeah, that would really be great. But then again, since when does NHRA do anything logical or beneficial, especially for the so-called "little guys"?

M68

[Kenny Wigington]

First, I hate it that he wrecked it, but after a helluva effort trying to minimize it !

I hope you would'nt rather have old style stell gaurdrails up there, in place of the walls ? I have seen, too many times what a gaurdrail can do to a car and a person in that car. That's a lot worse than scrubbing down a wall. Especially, if they got lapped the wrong direction. They get INSIDE the car sometimes !

[herbjr]

ANyone who thinks walls arent safe are crazy. Racetracks are as safe now as ever and I hit a wall back in 1990 not my fault, broke and axle but would not want a guardrail or room for a guardrail.

[Rick Bailey]

I would hate to add insult to injury here. and I hate that for Bob but I must say that iif he had he had a diaper on the car the odds would have been that he would never got into the wall. There has been too many others that have written and made statements that their cars/lives have been saved by using one.

Its cheap insurance guys......

Rick Bailey
S/C 3439

[Don Kennedy]

Rick : you are entitled to your opinion but i hate to add insult to injury but a diapher would not made any difference. There has been a whole lot of race cars hitting the wall with diaphers

[Mike Voth]

Not enough room to slip a piece of saran wrap down the side of the block, let alone a diaper. Unfortunately, it would never work on most SS engines. If they implemented this rule for us...our car would be parked. That's how serious it is for us, and many, many others I know of.

[herbjr]

A friend of mine had a T/S truck ran 7.40's in the 1/4. They backed him off due to an oil leak, he had a diaper on the truck, there was over a quart of oil in the diaper. What he found was an oil line on the external pickup was leaking obviously the run before. Who knows but if I'm going that fast Ill have a diaper.