RIP Carlos Pardo

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Tragic accident.........

NASCAR seriously needs to look at the safety at these Mexican tracks. I had no idea that some track were this unsafe. Its a true shame because this is dangerous and could have been avoided with better safety measurements in place.

Warning.........

This is a bad crash and claimed a life so view with caution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFyy1OfPg7Y
 
#2
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Spot on. Appalling how that inner wall is set up. You'd have thought after Greg Moore's death and numerous other incidents with walls set up like that, people would learn. And that's also an FIA sanctioned track so a lot of people messed up here.
 
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looks like they had the barrels of water in place to dissipate the energy.

as long as there's a wall for pit lane, there's never going to be a 100% safe way to protect the drivers from hitting the wall like that. it appears to be more of a freak accident than anything else.

either way, it's a shame he died.
 
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I started to watch the video, but decided not to. I just can't quite bring myself to watch a fatal crash after watching Russell Phillips' wreck a couple of years ago.

RIP Carlos
 
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#6
I don't follow racing... but setting a concrete median with no buffering on it's end is ridiculously dangerous. We even do that on highways where we're traveling 60 miles an hour. You might as well have a cartoonesque cliff at the edge of the turns.
 
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That was bad! RIP, I can't believe he lived for 45min after the crash. Poor family.

Did he get bumped or just lose it? Feel bad for the guy behind him too.
 
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IPorange said:
I don't follow racing... but setting a concrete median with no buffering on it's end is ridiculously dangerous. We even do that on highways where we're traveling 60 miles an hour. You might as well have a cartoonesque cliff at the edge of the turns.
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they had the water barrels set up there, similar to what you see on the interstate that protects the pillars on overheads passes, etc.

you can't see the car hit them (or the wall) because they exploded on impact. obviously, they needed something more there.

many years ago, they had a problem with something similar at Indianapolis. cars would come off turn 4, hit the wall and end up hitting the end of the wall that separates pit road from the track. here's a couple of examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t46o2CtwyaY&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ylon356B7w&feature=fvw

YouTube - Mark Dismore has a bad crash at Indianapolis-USA 1991

they've since worked on that area and while there's really no good solution, they have one that seems to work.

unfortunately, you can put all the money and time into new saftey features, but you have no clue if they're going to work until somebody has an accident. i have no clue if the Mexican series had access to technology like this, but i'd say they will from this point on.

in the same vain, look at what came from the Dale Sr. accident. it's just a shame that sometimes it takes losing a driver to open people's eyes.
 
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Michael Waltrip's crash at Bristol in 1990 was as frightening a crash as just about anything. That anybody can walk away from an impact like that is nothing short of a miracle.

Very sad about Pardo, I'm only a casual fan, but it's not hard to see that that Mexican track is unsafe.
 
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Harmon's Bristol crash may have been just as vicious. Fuller's wreck in the Kentucky Busch race a few years ago also comes to mind.
 
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