Watkins Glen DE fatality

[Rail26]

That is too bad. On another note, I hope the lawsuits don't start flying and PCA being able to use tracks does not come to an end. We Americans love to sue the Sh%$ out of people and then we go to the extremes to protect our butts by making crazy rules and restricting anything that might be remotely dangerous. That is why everything is so damn expensive. Thank you bloodsucking lawyers and better yet, thank you bloodsucking average joe who give the bloodsucking lawyers business. Sorry...I digress. My apologies to the lawyers out there...I understand you are people too just trying to make a living...even if it is at the back end of a ambulance.

[limoncello]

Rail - agree with your fears of curtailed privelages.
That aside, most tracks have a few known danger areas, where the concrete barriers are too close to the corners, etc. In a DE situation it hardly seems necessary to go flat out through those areas and risk tearing up a car, or worse, since there are no roll cages. Course, any loss of focus can always bring trouble. Hard to analyze without having more information on the specific crash. I'd be curious to hear exactly what happened, if they know - will see what I can find.

[Rail26]

My rant was completed below...I'm much calmer today. Please post what happened.