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“Still, at a stock car race a projectile is not falling out of the sky”

I've set track-side at Daytona and Indy both. My technical background lays it out very simply: Force equals mass times velocity squared. Work the math - no catch fence in the world is going to stop a 3500 pound car at 200 miles an hour if it hits the fence at the right angle. Yet if money and business didn't interfere, I'd be at Daytona, Indy, and Reno every year.

Life has risks. If you don't want to play, stay in bed with the covers over your head (and pray for no earthquakes).I'm in charge of my actions, and I'll manage my own risks.

37 posted on 09/19/2011 8:08:28 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name

To: I cannot think of a name

well, the stockcar starts out on the ground.

40 posted on 09/19/2011 8:11:20 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)

To: I cannot think of a name

oh AND I can’t think

I highly doubt a stock car weighs 3500 pounds unless they have taken to racing SUVs......lol

42 posted on 09/19/2011 8:13:09 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)

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