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yeah those Chargers are FAST in the draft! But need some help on their own it seems.
Ryan Newman is the one Charger driverto look out for.
Lotta spins so far in the 1st race!

WOW Mike Waltrip WON, beat Dale Jr by a hair!!

GO Kevin in the 2nd round!
Boris is also in the 2nd race and starts 5th.

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I saw the race where Dale Sr. died. He hit the wall HARD. Imagine going from about 80 miles per hour, to 0 in less than a second. That was how bad it was. Your neck can snap at 60mph.

I think Adam died in qualifying. IE not a time trial, not the actual race. If I remember correctly Kenny Irwin died at the same spot in the track, during the race. Same mistake, same injury, same result.

Dale had a choice of whether or not to use the "Hans Device" neck restraint. He said it would hang him, if he crashed.

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When they developed and built the Charger, they gave up a little of the aerodynamics and got a little more downforce. Remember, only 3 or 4 tracks raced on are aero tracks, the rest are downforce, driver tracks.

Newman has been a force in NASCAR since Rusty brought him in. But I think we're gonna have to watch Kasey Kahne this year too.

I have that race on tape. And he went from 180 to 0, but he didn't hit as hard as some of the wrecks I've seen.
Adam was killed during a practice session at New Hampshire. No mistake was made by Adam, when he was killed, his throttle stuck wide open, after going down the staight away and could not make the turn. He hit the turn 3 wall head-on.

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Yeah I forgot about Khasey, that kid is good!
So much new young talant it's going to be a great season.
Truex Jr is also good.

Race #2 is on... Gotta go watch Harvick win this :) :beer:

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Well I just heard about Adam in the local news, it was a while ago, so my memory isn't that good.

I wasn't saying it was the hardest impact, but it was hard. Like I said, it was the equivalent of going 80-0 in a second. Thats about how much speed was taken off from the impact I believe.

That 180mph, he was also going sideways. He didn't go full 180 into the wall. At most 120mph. He was being pushed before he hit.

What have you seen that was harder? Did the driver survive? That was one of the Hardest impacts I've seen in a while. Mainly because the car didn't spin, or flip. It just remained straight.

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There goes Harvicks chance! Huge crash. He should KNOW better than to bumpdraft in acorner WTF!
He did have a run on JJ tho.

Jimmi Johnson is a little baby whiner, I really have no respect for him, although he is talanted.
Thats racin

After watching the replay, it looks like JJ slowed down, Harvick had no where to go and was on his ass at190MPH.
Kevin still shouldn't have bumped him, but I wasn't in the car so what do I know.
JJ and the others are such crybabys when something doesn't go their way it makes me laugh.

Woohoo, at least my other driver won, Tony Stewart!
Jeff Burton 2nd.
Sunday's race should be crazy!

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A lot of the hardest crashes happened a few years a go.
Ricky Craven at Talledega sailing over a car and rolling along the catch fence.
Geoff Bodine in the trucks, rolling down the tri-oval and almost into the stands.
Rusty Wallace along the back straight away, flipping 10 times, end over end.

Just a few.

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Man, Rusty has bad luck at the Super Speedways, doesnn't he . hehe.

Remember Elliot Saddlers crash last year at Talladega? He flipped that thing llike 8 times in the air and walked away without a scratch!
It was because of the dirt being there, which is not now I think.
Nose of car dipped in dirt and flipped. They have concrete there now right?

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http://forums.filefront.com/images/s.../confusedx.gif I'm a Bible thumper?

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I think your right. they made a lot of changes and I think putting in concrete was one of them.