If there's any discussion, it'd be along the lines we saw during the Super Bowl: that a news event broke out in the middle of a sporting event, and ESPN refused to treat it as such: witholding information, refusing to press Nascar officials, etc.
And, of course, what's the lead story on Sportscenter on a day where spectators were injured at a Nascar event? Right: Danica Patrick. http://deadspin.com/5986464/todays-nascar-nationwide-race-at-daytona-ended-with-kyle-larsons-car-going-through-the-security-fence-and-torn-in-half The fencing effectively both failed and worked today: the debris got through (failure), but the car *didn't* (worked). The primary reason for those barriers is to keep the cars from going into the stands; the debris is secondary. If a car actually penetrated (or went over) the barrier, that's the nightmare. Ed Hinton (whose been covering motor sports since forever) often writes about witnessing the 1987 Talledaga accident where, for a brief moment, it looked like Bobby Allison's car was going to go into the stands, only to have the catch fence steel cables bend but not break. That lead to the restrictor plates for Daytona and Talledaga, which lead to the big pack racing, which leads to these huge accidents (aka The Big One). As for the tire flying into the stands: there's a reason that Indy mandated tethering of their tires after their late 90s incident. You can fairly ask Nascar why they still don't. On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:13 AM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't follow the auto racing that closely, but I don't recall political > types coming out of the woodwork for either the Weldon crash in 2011 (which > prompted some lengthy threads here) or the crash a few years ago (2009, > apparently) which would be the last time in NASCAR that spectators were > injured from a similar crash. It wasn't nearly as nasty as today's crash, > but the fences were involved in each case. > > David > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Saturday, February 23, 2013 11:55 PM > *Subject:* [TV orNotTV] Cable news and the Saturday racing crash > > The details can be looked up, of course, but are the political types > coming out of the woodwork to damn the stock-car bunch over this? > > -- BOB > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
