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NASCAR Wrecks

Fans come to Talladega for a show, and Sunday, April 27, 2009, they got it. But the sentiment from some of the drivers who actually finished the Aaron’s 499 and Carl Edwards, who crashed less than 150 yards from the finish was the same.

NASCAR just puts us in this box and we’ll race in it until a NASCAR Wreck kills someone, maybe when that happens they’ll change it,” said Edwards, who was leading before he tried to block eventual winner Brad Keselowski, which set off a chain reaction that resulted in Edwards’ No. 99 Ford going airborne and into the catch fence at Section K of the stands on the front
stretch.

Edwards ran to the start-finish line to complete the race, unaware that seven fans had been
harmed when his car’s roof plowed into the fence. The most serious injury was a woman with a broken jaw, according to Talladega Speedway Medical Director Bobby Lewis.

NASCAR saw things differently. “This is a big, fast racetrack no doubt, but our drivers are professional race car drivers. There are limits to everything and it seems as though no matter what, our drivers will stretch those limits,” said Jim Hunter, NASCAR Vice President of Communications. “Our crash investigators will analyze this crash to see if there’s anything we can do to prevent something like this. We’re always looking at ways to make racing safer.

That is our No. 1 priority.”

But where was NASCAR when the sanctioning body needed to be policing the event? Hoots made note of NASCAR’s “Aggressive Driving Zone” in the meeting which runs through the corners and in the tri-oval where the final crash occurred. But NASCAR handed out just one warning throughout the course of the afternoon to Brian Vickers, whose right tires went below the yellow line as he went to pass Keselowski early. It was clear that drivers were pushing each other and bump-drafting throughout the entire race. NASCAR needs to enforce these rules and not limit penalties to judgment calls.

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