The 2024 running motorsports thread

I mean, there was technically a crash but even if you have someone 50 years younger in the seat, I don’t see how else he would solve for “car goes boom.”

 

I don't know if it would make much difference. Any time you have a crash in straight line racing, it's almost always some kind of glancing blow. The biggest innovations they've done to the tracks is after Blaine Johnson was killed they removed the turnouts and when Scott Kalitta was killed they shortened the fuel categories to 1,000 feet (which I still don't like).

 

He or she wouldn't. But a 25-year-old has a better chance at recovery from a serious crash than a 75-year-old.

 

I hear you - need to preface this before you or others get the wrong impression - but John Force is likely the sort who wants to call his own shot and not have someone - not his daughters, sponsors, the NHRA or anyone else - call it for him. Also, some folks that age fear irrelevance more than anything else - including death.

Please believe me as I have a relative who I believe is still overly concerned about these sorts of issues.

FWIW, I don't want to see Force - or anyone else - get hurt, particularly because they hung on too long.

 

Even by the standards of PR puffery, that subhed is wildly incongruent.

 

It's entirely possible they don't know the extent of anything.

While nebulous is sometimes blatant, it's also sometimes "we really don't know."

 

You misspelled "wildly overoptimistic."

 

The subhead refers to the other team (and family) members, not Force himself.

 

Subhead seems to be referring to the team, not the driver. Still weird though.

 

Nobody is saying much about Force the last couple of days other than he's still in ICU.