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Originally Posted by 60man
I'm not a Danacia fan nor basher....
But have any of you tried to steer a 3,500 lb race car running 200 MPH when you get hit and spun in a pack of cars ??!!!
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I doubt anyone posting on this board has personally experienced those exact situations. I freely admit I haven't. Heck - the fastest I've ever driven is only 135.
I first started working on race cars in 1972 and have been a corner worker where I've been within 20 feet to see exactly what happens when wrecks happen. It was my job to assign fault and send the appropriate driver to the back. I'll even admit that there probably was a time or two when I sent the wrong driver to the back - based on the portion of the wreck that I actually saw vs what I didn't get to see.
I've spent a lot of time inside a race track photographing racing too. You don't get shots like this without standing right on the edge of the track:
This is an action shot of one of the cars that I helped build and pitted for:
These are the kind of shot you get from the grandstands:
When you are that close to the racing surface with no wall between you and the action - you need to have a good understanding of what happens when wrecks happen. Or else you could be part of the wreck.
Getting back to the Touring Princess:
Danica does not appear to get spun, but she did get hit. Her car continued to go straight ahead even after the impact for a period of time. She somehow managed to lose control of her car. Getting hit on the extreme right front end like she did, if anything, should have caused her car to spin towards the infield, not go uphill into the wall.
If she had been hit behind the right front wheel - that would cause her rear end to go to the left and have her pointing uphill to the wall, just like these photos from Charlotte (continuation of the same wreck as the last photo above):
Do I think Danica intentionally drove her car into the wall? Absolutely not.