How does the safer barrier work

Motorsports is dangerous. People are killed participating in motorsports — especially at the lower levels, where the safety requirements are much lower than in the high-dollar, high-visibility series.

All you need is that one in a thousand, one in ten-thousand confluence of events. Consider for a moment the ratio of people whose job it is to make cars fast to people whose job it is to make racing safer. Thank you for bringing up the grass. Not only for the Kyle Busch crash, but there were several wrecks throughout speedweeks where a driver got run into the grass and had the front of their car destroyed. It also makes it hard to control your car if you get into it, so you have no way to stop your car from sliding back onto the race track.

Grass is an interesting subject. In civil engineering, we try to slow or contain water using natural cover, rip rap, etc. Natural cover looks better, but rip rap performs superior in large-water situations. A new product called Flexamat allows grass to grow between preformed concrete nodules woven into a nylon base, essentially giving the performance of rip rap, but the much better look of natural cover.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Twitter Facebook Instagram. TL;DR: No. Get Off Your Grass Get rid of the grass. The Fallacy of Safe Racing Motorsports is dangerous. Read Case Study Read Article. International Speedway Corporation. Read Article. Dover International Speedway. Read The Article. We Understand Racetrack Safety. Contact Us. Quick Links. About Us. Public Accommodation Fencing.

Municipality Fencing. If a panel is damaged by a race car, or the paint system begins to fail, the exposed zinc surface can be repainted with minimal surface preparation, as no rust will form. It also incorporated overhead lighting structures. Thanks to the hot-dip galvanized backbone, these systems will not be at risk of corrosion and look race-ready for many, many years to come. Download Case Study Detail Sheet. HDG: Browning Enterprise, Inc. Smith Fence Company.

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