NASCAR Corona Series driver dies in crash

[tvaddik]

John Blewett III and Tom Baldwin Sr. passed in 2007 and 2004 respectively both while racing in the Nascar Whelen Modified Tour

[flubber342]

NASCAR had a great streak going, no deaths from 2001 (after dale) to 2009

[trainboy32]

@flubber342 i belive its the only death in any nascar series since then

[vtnascar14]

aww man he died on my bday :(..RIP Carlos

[shitsinpants420]

why and the fuck would they have that opened like that??? was it the pit road? or what?? if it wasnt nascar should be sued!!! till there balls fall off!!

[thatkid780]

@shitsinpants420 dude.........its mexico what do you expect

[StaticDonut]

R.I.P

[blackopsfreak876]

that was huge



[TheNr2003master]

who designed that wall

they are freaking stupid

[harbaou444]

is puebla, no pueblo.

[EaAddict360]

@TwistLosi not necessarily. The real problem lies within head and neck restraints with the neck separating from the spine. Thats what kills people. The G forces knocking people out comes from contact with the head, because the neck and spine separate before the brain would be damaged without contact with something like the rollcage.

[71rjeelykcir]

You know, maybe NASCAR will learn eventually but who knows? Hopefully in the future, track designers look at all possibilities before starting work on anything, and do the same to old tracks to fix them! Many have said it takes a tragedy to learn and i couldnt agree more. Come on NASCAR, be smarter.

[edsong97]

why did carlos win the race?

[71rjeelykcir]

@edsong97 He was declared the winner of the race since he was leading the race at the last completed lap before the accident occurred, beating Goeters by 0.044 seconds

[villy27]

Was there any penalty to the driver who touched him?

[71rjeelykcir]

@villy27 i dont think there would have been. Fatal or not, accidents happen very frequently and under NASCAR jurisdiction, it was probably looked at as an accident. You take a big chance everytime you race and its sad to see someone pay the ultimate price for it.

[derblicker]

holy there was norhing left of the car

[checkfoldcallraise]

the worse part is that people have to die before safety measures really get taken seriously. to save money they'd rather wait and look what happens!

[sikknote666]

Might as well have planted some 50ft oak trees on the main straight... fkwts

[sikknote666]

ermm.. lateral wall on the main straight? what where they thinking of... might as well go back to 60's. Management and sponsors were hopefully sued to hell. Basilar skull fracture would have been the least of his worries, the car nearly atomised on impact. Yeah the commentator is a tool as well as the track designer....

[BADASSED88]

their mexicans , tehy dont have the safety measures that nascar has

[Quintinohthree]

It's NASCAR, they don't have the safety measueres Mexicans actualy want. NASCAR USA isn't much safer either.

[nascarjohnsonfan48]

@Quintinohthree umm actaully nascar is safer here in the U.S. safer cars and way safer tracks.

[Quintinohthree]

@nascarjohnsonfan48

I said it wasn't much safer. Any bit is more than none.

[gillisledoux007]

the announcer sounds like he's commenting soccer, not a deadly car crash.

did anyone ever get a concussion ? (mine was from rugby)

now imagine a 200km/h concussion, he must not have suffered for a long time.

[angus143956]

nascar mexico series sucks ass. it is so cheap they should get rid of it

[madtrollking1963]

well I agree saftey needs to be improved but do they charge the other driver with ?? no way through he should hav backed off punted and killed real bad driving

[snowddoogg]

not to bash on mexican nascar but that is bull shit that part of the track should of been made a lot safer they should of known better shame on them for letting saftey concern slip by

[BADASSED88]

should have been leveled to a parking lot

[fizza64]

very sad R I P

from England

[Rip1969]

Sad story. God less his family.

What happened to the Driver that spun him out?

[Jordan7Carrasco]

R.I.P

From Morocco

[Godson2O]

Oh my god ! May he rest in peace.

[MeBest777]

Most sad. RIP driver from Mexico.

[ichbinlopez]

The standars are kind of different anyway I dont think a car can absorve a hit from 200 km/hr to 0 in less than a second do you think? The issue here is that the barrier was so unsafe.

[Nxtl68]

agreed.

they gotta fix that barrier before they go back. And why dont they have safer barriers btw?

[Kartkid024]

I'm guessing money might be an issue.

[kaseykahne4ever]

wow that was some hard impact they should some have saver barries;

[panzertoo]

do they have the same safety standards there??

[DarkenedClarity]

Don't look like it... The car hit at 140mph a COT car here in the US could take a hit like that. They would be out of the race but would walk away.

Or he may have hit just right and made the car fly apart like that. Who knows thats part of it never know what can happen out there on the track.

[TwistLosi]

Your kidding me right? the type of car in this crash makes no difference at all, the G forces would instantly knock you out and cause horrible brain damage

[DarkenedClarity]

No I was not... The barrie it hit sucked as soon as the car hit all the force was in that one spot that made the G forces so high. If they had a well planed out barrie there the impact could have been alot less. Say if they made the barrie a type of barrie that takes a hit and the car can continue to slide to a stop. Not just a dead stop right into it. You have to try and equal out the force of the crash so its not all at one time.

[Quintinohthree]

One other problem: Carlos had only a door and part of the roll cage to save him. The car wouldn't have mattered. Any car with left side steering would have been lethal too.

[skynet0912]

Any car slamming into a solid concrete barrier at about 120 mph will almost always be fatal... The forces involved are simply to great!

A headon crash in a car into a solid object at 120mph can easily peak at over 200G. The barrier did move, yes, but not before the car transfered all it's kinetic energy to it, so basically the barrier didn't absorb any significant force in the impact...

[woodymcruk]

didnt he get a nudge,sorry if its already been asked,,the car went from 140 to 0 in 0metres,the G force alone would have caused a basilar skull fracture ,and the car absorbed more of the energy than the wall,a accident that could have definately been avoided,what half wit thought it would be a good idea surely i wasnt down to one man,SAftey non existant

[snappy452]

@TwistLosi Wrong. Very wrong. Elliott Sadler hit the inside wall @ Pocono this year, probably doing no less than 130 HEAD FIRST. Walked away. Mark Martin hit a guardrail/chain-link fence @ Talladega in 94 doing around 100 head on, and he only "got his bell rang." Theres 100 instances you can pull from the top series where the guys didnt suffer fatal injury. Second rate safety/equipment/safety concerns. That wall shouldnt be there, or at least been at a much flatter angle.

[EaAddict360]

@TwistLosi not necessarily. The real problem lies within head and neck restraints with the neck separating from the spine. Thats what kills people. The G forces knocking people out comes from contact with the head, because the neck and spine separate before the brain would be damaged without contact with something like the rollcage.

[EaAddict360]

@TwistLosi not necessarily. The real problem lies within head and neck restraints with the neck separating from the spine. Thats what kills people. The G forces knocking people out comes from contact with the head, because the neck and spine separate before the brain would be damaged without contact with something like the rollcage.

[BADASSED88]

look at joey laganos flip at dover or ryan newmans flip at talldega

[KMHrock89]

@BADASSED88 Logano was a rollover with impact on zones away from the center of the car. Newman I will agree was a dangerous crash, but he landed flat on his roof in a couple or three instances. Carlos's crash was an instant stop with the biggest of the hit right in the center of the car. Any car taking that severe of impact, and instantly stopping, would hurt or kill a driver even in NASCAR Sprint Cup.

[Porygonseizureman]

@DarkenedClarity Maybe, I bet the driver would suffer Loy Allen like injuries.

[MikeCaliente]

Hey Tidus and Richard, you really are a couple of complete assholes. Did you even take the trouble to ask some Spanish speaking person to translate you the comment? or at the very least know what kind of TV show was it from which the video was taken??

You are exactly the kind of people that make everyone around the world hate the United States people regardless of the very fine persons that have been born and/or live there.

FYI comment taken from a newscast just after the race. RIP Carlos

[ichbinlopez]

3 richard, your comment is so soulless too don´t you think? the announcer did not know that Carlos had died by the time the put the image on the show.

[Sponis55]

HOLY SHIT HIS CAR EXPLODED

[taylor2308]

So sad - I hope that the family can take some solace from the fact that he died doing something he loved? RIP xx

[3richardwilliams]

Mexi-announcer doesnt skip a beat. What a heartless jerk.

[TidusBlue]

You're right, I'm sure the announcer knew the exact outcome of the crash at the moment it happened... what a jerk.

[3richardwilliams]

Honey - it's obvious mexican people are soulless taco eaters.

[GustavoCLa]

As used as I am to find anti-Mexican comments by Americans in almost all videos related somehow to Mexico in youtube, I asked myself it this would happen in this kind of video too... Surprisingly...

[3richardwilliams]

Fine... Mexican Announcer doesn't skip a beat. By specificying that the announcer in Mexican I am being racist? Perhaps this should suffice: you are racist since you called me racist for talking about Mexico - fucking mexican.

[GustavoCLa]

Who was talking about race here? You don't lose any opportunity.

[nascarjohnsonfan48]

@3richardwilliams you know, this is why people hate americans. i live in the U.S. and i'm guatemalan but there's a bunch of stupid people that assume i'm mexican because of the huge stereotype when there's more than one country that has tan people from it.

[SWeggemann]

This isn't live, he is most likely a sports announcer for a news show. It hadn't been released publicly that he was dead yet.