Hardest Impact ever, LIVE. w/ C.O.T. 185mph into wall

so far the hardest impact taken by the car of tomorrow while a driver was in it, oppose to test crashes, over 180 mph straight into the wall at turn 4 after blowing a right front tire and shooting himself into the safer barrior

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[Zoomer30]

The HANS can do only so much. The sad thing about NASCAR is this: if Dale had not died we would not have the HANS mandatory and we would not have the SAFER walls.

NASCAR AND NASA: They don't fix stuff till ppl die.

[RunerRacerPeniguin5]

8 years ago - he'd be dead on impact and had a half face helmet and no HANNS devise.

[rimetetube]

@Blackopsmw21 from video at 194mph/195mph at beginning of breaking loose and impact into the barrier at 187mph. That is the part of this video that is important since the direct impact @187mph and the flip(s). Without the safety that has finally made it's way in all of motor-sports from F1-Nascar and the upcoming 2013 IRL car this driver walked away.

That is all that matters and to keep pushing the limit on the safety, engineers always find speed. 

[penske13]

@penske13 i don't care what they say they had in the pipe. they were saying shit like that for 20 years. it doesn't take 15 years to become safer. the hans and the hutchins devices were out and about in the middle 80's. they are perrinial foot draggers and it caught up with them and dale earnhardt. nemecheck, alexander, martin, irwin, petty.....goddamn man. those all happened within months of one another. they were just talkin. the talkin stopped when big e died.

[penske13]

@erasetoimprove i'm sorry. i disagree with you. nascar moved at a snails pace concerning testing......driver safety and track safety. the most memorable line from that time was..." well, it's just a racin deal." nascar was LAST in the world as far as driver safety was concerned. formula 1 followed c.a.r.t. with the hans and similar devices to improve their drivers chances in an accident. they were the leaders. nascar did nothing to stem it's fatality record untill adam petty died. period.

[erasetoimprove]

@penske13 that is absolutely not true. 90% of what you see in today's COT was purposed in a 15 year plan in 1998 in a state of the sport press conference held by Bill France Jr, and the Hans Device was being tested at the 2001 Daytona 500 by five drivers.... and was rumored to be made mandatory in 2002 (at Earnhardt's displeasure). Earnhardt's death is surely what put all this on rush order, but it is NOT what inspired most of the safety innovations. SAFER Barriers were already being tested too

[penske13]

@erasetoimprove that is a load of crap. there was no rush in nascar to do ANYTHING differently. if it had been ANYONE other than dale who passed on the sport wouldn't have moved an inch. period.

[dash662]

@Zoomer30 sadly enough thats so true

[Blackopsmw21]

thumbs up if you noticed that he wasnt going full throtle on the straightaway at 0:04

[ccBallistic]

@Zoomer30 Its not until people die that you know there is a real problem to fix.

[erasetoimprove]

@aure232 considering they top out at over 200MPH at the end of the front stretch, think it's safe to say the impact occurred at least at 180MPH if not slightly more.

[erasetoimprove]

@MrBenjamin1112 it was far from a minor crash. People think it was a minor crash just because the car wasn't flipping, but if you look closely you can see the impact twist the body work of the entire car even though only the front of the car his. Plus knocking the front suspension off in one hit is no easy task. It was indeed a very serious looking crash to all except the casual viewer.