It's incredible how relaxed NASCAR's testing rules where in the early 2000's but I guess that's why they stopped there relaxed testing because of testing crashes and the fact that safety workers don't arrive too fast. It still would be cool if they where able to test at Daytona at least I'm sure more teams would try to qualify for the 500. Too bad there's a charter system though.
Nascar got rid of teams testing because of cost, not safety. Allegedly most of the changes nascar has made is to ease the cost on teams, tho it seems like they try to make it more exclusive/expensive.
How Brad Keslowski managed to drive that Pocono race on a broken ankle is crazy... Don't know how Brian Vickers and Shane Hill wasn't killed in their wrecks is beyond me as well Edit: also this is the first time I've heard about that Kyle Busch story
Greg Sacks also wrecked hard at Daytona in 1980 when he was testing a Cup car for Richard Childress. Hit the infamous turn 4 inside wall and went for a few barrel rolls.
I’ve been a diehard NASCAR fanatic for 30 years and never heard the story of Shrub helping Biffle out of his burning car. Just gained some respect for him there
@@vtec5862 Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, William Byron, Alex Bowman and Martin truex jr have never flipped in the top 3 series.
I know this isn’t a testing crash, but whenever I think of crashes with no footage, I think of Elliott Sadler’s 2010 Pocono crash. I hope that one day, we’ll find a good video of it. (I know that there’s a fan video, but the quality is really bad)
Vickers probably meant that he cleared the wall, or he was still dazed from that hit. Rockingham is really steep in turn 4 I've driven it for Buck Baker Racing School
I still dont see how Martin Truex Jr survived the watkins glen Busch series East crash. He jumped out of the top of the car since there was nothing left
Also, don’t forget that the track configurations are sometimes different at the tests (like the tire barrier that caused Shane Hall to flip) as well as non-nascar tracks like Road Atlanta that don’t have nascar-level safety.
I think there was something wrong with that backstretch wall at Rockingham. I suspect it wasn't 90 degrees perpendicular to the track surface. It was common for cars to launch up that wall.
He showed it because it was probably similar in description of what Vickers wreck looked like. For a lot of these test session wrecks no known footage exists because they were all private sessions
The Biff needs to remember a couple of things... 1) safety crews at test days what you pay for. The team pays the track to use it, and part of that cost is the safety crew, you want more, you can get more, for a price. 2) at test days, usually the infield care center is not staffed. there SHOULD be an ambo on scene. Again, you get what you pay for. But if he was concerned, he should have asked for care.
Vicker's car has nothing on Michael Waltrip's Busch car from Bristol. For those unfamiliar with it, he hit the end of the wall holding the old cross over gate on the back straight. He went from full throttle to stopped dead in mere feet. What was left looked nothing like a motor vehicle. It's here on RU-vid.
I never could understand what people hate about Bush, dude gives more back to the sport than any other drivers,it's not unusual to see him at a late model race on a Saturday night
Kyle Petty’s testing crash at Talladega in ‘99 was very bad from what I heard. He crashed in the in field & hit a pole. Kinda like Mark Martin’s Talladega wreck 5 years earlier
Dale Jrs career was shortened by a test crash at Michigan I believe tire blew out of turn 2 he said something like it was hardest hit he had ever experienced
Perhaps the video would be better if you showed the actual wrecks. Throughout the video you talk about driver X, but showing wrecks from drivers A, B and C.
Speaking of testing in 2011 or 2010 nascar let Martin truex and another driver do a test at Daytona without the restrictior plate and a fan recorded it and the speed was fucking amazing but I think nascar made the fan take the video down cause truex almost wrecked bad but he saved it
Why would not believe Bush got him out of the car, you say that and then give minutes later you quote Biffle and he says that a driver pulled him out of the car
