As others on here may or may not know, I'm a loyal Jeff Gordon fan. But I truly enjoy many of the NASCAR drivers and wish them all good, safe trips each race. Junior is a terrific guy who's important to all of us fans (or should be), even if our favorite driver is someone else.
He's also important to the sport. That's why I hope he never drives in another one of these side series again.
Just as I said up higher in the thread — and as these photos prove — he was sitting strapped in that racecar surrounded by fire for several long seconds with no safety crew helping him.
Also, the team had to change the fuel cell just the night before because it was delaiminating. The owner was very hasty in saying there couldn't be a problem with the fuel cell because they changed it. Whatever broke on that car, fuel was just pouring out like a river all over the hot underside of that car. There clearly was no fire extinguisher on board the car, like in NASCAR. In my opinion the car was a death trap, and everyone involved is just damned, damned lucky Junior didn't die in it.
Absolutely right he is a lucky boy tonight.
Also, as you mentioned earlier he had to bail out himself because no track official came to the car until he was on the ground on all fours.
It also looked as though he almost hit those guys when he spun. They were stationed behind a small tire barrier which he hit.
The ALS people better look at that tape very closely and get their emergency personnel up to snuff!!
I wonder if someone forgot to tighten a hose clamp on the filler tube when they changed the cell...