Micheal waltrip scary crash bristol 1988

his violent crash on the backstretch at bristol

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[sk4382]

WOW!  That shows how NASCAR is not very quick to learn..... this happened to Mike Harmon 10 years later before they finally figured out it was a good idea to get rid of that gate.

[cnycarnut]

i will never understand how harmon and waltrip walked out of those cars. i also will never understand why nascar hadnt fixed that gate by now. the fact harmon had to go through that in the first place was unacceptable in my opinion. waltrips crash should've taught them a lesson.

[hondaredrider]

@brunnemerc dont try to be smart by doing roundabout physics. mike went from about 110, to an almost dead stop, instantly. dale went from about 170 to around 100, then gradually slowed from there. the smaller the area a force is applied to, the greater the pressure. dale hit an essentially infinite wall. mike hit a solid piece of concrete about a foot wide. mikes impact was far worse (just look at the care). mike got lucky, and dales death probly had something to so w the open face helmet

[MrTadpole77]

This Happend in 1990. :-)

[fastmannnnn]

its sad how this happened twice lol

[brunnemerc]

@CpDdog453 force equals mass X acceleration (speed squared)

micheal was going about 100 dale was going about 180. we will say the cars have a constant weight of 1 so dale had a force about 3.25 times worse which is VERY rough estimate. take maybe half the force away from dale as he hit at and angle and the impact was still much stronger than micheals.

[frostyis007]

@systematicchaos I guess cause Michale wouldn't have been leading the 500? hahahaha, using that scenario, if it was raining during the 2001 Daytona 500, Dale would still be alive. Or if Dale didn't have a son who raced in NASCAR he'd still be alive, or if the Soviet Union won the Cold War he would still be alive....

[Jardbig]

this is from 1990

[Dominik0366]

@sk4382 14 exactly. He did it in 2002.

[systematicchaos]

@Jammin6796

How the hell do you figure that?



[Jammin6796]

just think if he died dale would still be alive