Hard to believe that no one asked anything about Mark Martin's wreck Sunday while leading the race.?

A gate didn't stop Michael Waltrip from tearing his car in half at Bristol several years ago. Each track looks at these openings and chages them as situations arise. This is high speed racing and cars crash it is almost impossible to predict what may happen and where, sometimes it has to happen before anyone realizes that particular wall opening maybe hazardous.

They can leave the openings, but they should be curved. All openings on the inside wall at any track should be curved. Either that, or they should be closed off by some sort of gate unless a safety vehicle or car needs to get through.

They've raced at Michigan for decades, and other tracks with openings like this. I've watched NASCAR for about 20 years now and this is the first time I've ever seen a crash like this. The odds of it happening are pretty astronomical.

The only thing I think could really help is to make the wall curved instead of a sharp edge.

I would wall up the current opening and put an opening further down pit road with a curved wall on one side instead of an abrupt edge.

Curve the wall further around this may help. Am so glad that he was not hurt, it could have been a very ugly wreck.

EDIT: maybe water barrels would work there.

Here's a question, who and what on sunday blah nobody nascares.

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