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NASCAR Driver Jason Leffler Killed

Him with his son. Very sad.

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The car looked no different than any other sprint I have seen after a flip. However, there are reports that his seat may have shifted causing his head to contact the roll cage.
 
isufbcurt said:
The car looked no different than any other sprint I have seen after a flip. However, there are reports that his seat may have shifted causing his head to contact the roll cage.
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And I'm not an expert, but that kind of jived with what I thought I saw...to me, it looked like the left side shoulder support looked like it was deformed. Again, not an expert, but I was thinking I saw that in the pic.
 
I have been going down to Knoxville for years and I have seen hundreds of crashes many of which have left me wondering how the driver was able to walk away unharmed. There have been some terrible crashes and the driver walks away without a scratch and then you see a seemingly innocent looking crash and the driver is severely injured or killed. As of 2006 when the last racing fatality happened with Steve King of Jetmore, KS there have been 15 drivers killed at Knoxville Raceway.

When you really get up close to a sprint car and look at the driver's seat, the side panels, and the roll cage you get a true sense of just how exposed the drivers really are when they are out on the track. Very sad to see something like this happen but make no mistake sprint car racing is a very dangerous form of racing.
 
Cyclonestate78 said:
I have been going down to Knoxville for years and I have seen hundreds of crashes many of which have left me wondering how the driver was able to walk away unharmed. There have been some terrible crashes and the driver walks away without a scratch and then you see a seemingly innocent looking crash and the driver is severely injured or killed. As of 2006 when the last racing fatality happened with Steve King of Jetmore, KS there have been 15 drivers killed at Knoxville Raceway.

When you really get up close to a sprint car and look at the driver's seat, the side panels, and the roll cage you get a true sense of just how exposed the drivers really are when they are out on the track. Very sad to see something like this happen but make no mistake sprint car racing is a very dangerous form of racing.
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I also saw a report that in hot laps a Sprint had an average speed of 146 mph at this race so it was a very fast track.

I love racing and I love WATCHING sprint cars, but I do not have the balls to ever race a sprint car. I have wrecked pretty bad in my Late Model without getting hurt, but had I been in a Sprint Car when I had my really bad flip at Knoxville I probably would have been hurt really bad.
 
isufbcurt said:
I also saw a report that in hot laps a Sprint had an average speed of 146 mph at this race so it was a very fast track.

I love racing and I love WATCHING sprint cars, but I do not have the balls to ever race a sprint car. I have wrecked pretty bad in my Late Model without getting hurt, but had I been in a Sprint Car when I had my really bad flip at Knoxville I probably would have been hurt really bad.
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It really is crazy thinking about sitting in one of those cars going that fast. They have the driveline running down between their feet, the side panels are really flimsy so they offer little protection from debris, and usually they are fully exposed on the left hand side from the waist up. Terry McCarl suffered a pretty severely broken leg when he was running with the Outlaws simply from a piece of debris (mud chunk, rock, etc...) that was run over by another car and flung in his direction. It went straight through the side panel of his car and shattered his leg. If the driveline breaks you would have the pieces of that flopping around between your lower leg area and feet, etc... Then you have the obvious danger of crashes.

 
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