HPDE passenger's widow wins $4.5 million settlement
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Originally Posted by stein
When you die and someone else can be sued, your loved will pursue the lawsuit no matter how you feel about it!
yes the organizers and track were at fault for not having the appropriate safety measures, they could have been better.
when dale ernhart died how much did his with sue the track, other drivers and car manufacturer for? he drives 200 mph 6 inches from a wall and has people merging in on the racing line.
but the driver also did not have the skill to drive that high of caliber car.
the car was tail happy on acceleration 600 hp will do that. what about the ceramic brakes on the car? !!!!!!!!!!!!!! god know porsche is awesome on the brakes
you brake to avoid hitting something not pressing down on the gas to go faster
back in the day ---note guard rail right next to the track
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Originally Posted by MSR350Z
A dose of reality here:
I have been to too many open track days with too little instructors and too many egos. Most drivers “did not need” (their own opinions) instructors, I know cause I ask them. Reality is they have no business being on the track by themselves or with friends.
Like to call these people unguided projectiles.
I have been to too many open track days with too little instructors and too many egos. Most drivers “did not need” (their own opinions) instructors, I know cause I ask them. Reality is they have no business being on the track by themselves or with friends.
Like to call these people unguided projectiles.
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I just realized that a lot of this is just hindsight=20/20. We are all sitting here, after the fact, and saying "bad place for a wall," I agree, it is a bad place/angle for a wall, but I, and everyone else here, have the benefit of hindsight. We all know, now, how bad things can go with that wall there but before the accident, there was a NASCAR race with that same wall in the same place and no problems. Hell, they had a kids' play area just on the other side of that wall, and no problems. All the drivers that ran the day of the crash saw the wall there and I didn't read of anyone refusing to drive because of the wall. (Who expects to loose control of a car in a straight line, on dry pavement?) Truth be told, I probably would have driven on that same track with the wall right where it was, and chalked it up to another hazard to avoid at that track
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Originally Posted by Z1NONLY
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with that wall there but before the accident, there was a NASCAR race with that same wall in the same place and no problems.
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with that wall there but before the accident, there was a NASCAR race with that same wall in the same place and no problems.
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Originally Posted by GaryM05
True, but NASCAR runs only on the oval portion of that track, not the infield road course where that wall was placed, so the NASCAR cars weren't ever in the vicinity of that wall during the race.
Ok, but I think my original point still stands.
Originally Posted by Z1NONLY
....All the drivers that ran the day of the crash saw the wall there and I didn't read of anyone refusing to drive because of the wall. (Who expects to loose control of a car in a straight line, on dry pavement?) Truth be told, I probably would have driven on that same track with the wall right where it was, and chalked it up to another hazard to avoid at that track.
As I said before, "Who expects to loose control of a car in a straight line, on dry pavement?" Judging from the fact that drivers chose to drive at the track with the wall in that location, at that angle, the answer seems to be, at least in part; "-No one that was on that track before crash."
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Originally Posted by Z1NONLY
Ok, but I think my original point still stands.
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