NASCAR - Ryan Newman in serious but stable condition following fiery crash

Could be right. But I'm sure they use the rear gear cooler too.

Guess my point is, why would investigators be looking at a fuel leak.

Agree on that. I could be wrong but I think if that was gas leaking like that it would have caught fire in a big way.

Dude took a hit on the head at head height by a car doing around 180mph. The car that hit him on the head never hit the brakes but at least let off the gas a little. I see around 5 dudes die like this over the years.

Lucky man, good job to crew for building a bad ass car (every weld matters), hats off to NASCAR for ever increasing safety standards.

Hope his neck, concussion, etc go fine. Technology is there. Go see the NFL doctors. Thats what Jr. did. They are the best.

Without reviewing videos, the visible fire was mostly toward the end of the filler neck, while the gas was flowing downhill away from that flame. I was concerned it would light any second, or the firemen would cause the flame to go toward the fuel.

Apparently the fuel ran down along the driver's side, fireman gave it a shot on that side.

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Lots of strange leads and points in this article

Things are getting weird now

Probably some hand-wringing going on today at Nascar.

Indy cars go even faster.

They don’t bump and push at 195 mph

NASCAR love it or leave it

None like it

Thanks. This is what someone had mentioned & that he got fined for speaking out.

From article:

Newman has previously expressed his concerns over the way NASCAR cars are becoming too fast. He did so following a race in Talladega last April in which he spoke about the way cars are getting more dangerous. That wasn't the first time he voiced his frustrations about the situation.

After being involved in another car crash in 2013, which was the third time since 2009 he either had his car go airborne or had another car come down on him, Newman went off on the subject.

"I am doing this interview to let everybody know I'm all right," Newman said to reporters afterwards according to ESPN. "They can build safer race cars, they can build safer walls. But they can't get their heads out of their a---- far enough to keep them on the race track, and that's pretty disappointing.

Joe Gibbs prays with the team like that after every win. Nothing new there.

Yep

Things kind of just went to the moon

Lightning strikes in the back ground

Everything is so dammed corrupt

Doesn’t matter what it is

Not trying to compare the two, however being open wheeled they can also lock wheels and have crazy crashes if you can spare 3 minutes, you'll see all racing is dangerous.

Of course

Indy is dangerous as hell

LOL really?

Money is tight in NASCAR with lots of long time big money sponsors leaving or pulling back.
He has little to do with the names on the car. The owner of the car is the one that signs the deals most the time.

There are exceptions like Paul Menard, the Menards sponsorship followed him from team to team till he ran out of teams to bounce to and he retired. His daddy owns Menards.

Richard Petty had STP follow him to the Curb racing team in the mid 80s when he left his own team to his son kyle for a while.

But Koch was not one of the deals that followed Ryan, in fact I am pretty sure that is the 1st race he had raced with them on his car.

Both are dangerous but they also both have very good safety rules and regulations.

I personally think a full bod car is a bit more forgiving than an open wheel car. They can bump off each other and the wall and still run strong. If open wheel cars rub the wall or another car it pretty much ends their day.

One thing that no one is saying is the race where Ryan crashed should have ended under caution after the leader took the white flag and there was a crash behind the leaders that should have brought out a caution. NASCAR normally throws a caution with a crash as ad as that one but they did not. The way their rules are, the winner is the one in the lead when they throw the caution. The drivers knew there was a crash and a caution could be coming at any time so they may have been fighting a tiny bit harder to get ahead and made their final moves before they planned to.
The crash is on NASCAR for not being consistent about when they throw the caution. I personally think they did not want Newman to win because he has been outspoken against them in the past. Had another driver been in the lead they may have thrown the caution and ended the race when that 1st crash on the last lap happened.

Wow that was rough to watch.

Google Stan Fox Indy 1995 for some incredible pictures.

Thanks for the video.

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The crash that should have ended the race is at the 24 minute mark in the following video




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And this is all happening almost 19 years to the day Earnhardt died....and this is a bit telling what Earnhardt Jr said about Newman's crash.

"I just can't stop thinking about Ryan," Earnhardt told NBC. "Just waiting on more news, more information... when can we see him? When can we physically talk to Ryan? When can we put our own eyes on him and get a chance to see how he's doing."


If Newman is really up and talking why can't Earnhardt talk to him? Or see him?

I know he’s talking but no word on his physical condition?

So what everyone is saying is - ‘Speed Kills’ - right?

The moment you are born, you are dying.
It just takes longer for some people. You gotta go somehow, may as well go doing what you love doing.

He may be talking but what about his extremities? There's more to come I'm afraid.

Wow - that 18+ video is brutal and sad. Many of the drivers died from fire which happens rarely now. Fuel tank, roll cages, and keeping the cars from going airborne has been improved tremendously over the last couple of decades. What happened with Newman’s car was a bit of everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

Hungry drivers and speed can be deadly. They know it going into the career. With 30-laps left, I was amazed at how many cars were still racing; but of course the real racing, the most dangerous racing was just a few laps away. The herd thinned quickly, putting more surviving racers in contention.

It is what it is. If you don’t like the game, don’t watch it. You have other options.

NASCAR drivers are some tough SOBs

in 2009, Ryan Newman lobbied NASCAR to add a bar to the cage to increase the strength of the top Halo. NASCAR agreed, and the Newman Bar was added to the Gen6 COT with little fan fare. 10 years later.. the Newman Bar likely saved Ryan's life..

Ryan has a B.S. in engineering from Purdue so it is safe to assume he knows what he is talking about when he addresses safety concerns

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