Funny how we here in the Pacific Northwest lamented
how Texas has apparently become the "New Washington" in terms of
dumping wet stuff upon motor races routinely the last year...
All I can say is Thank Goodness Josef
Newgarden Walked Away from his massively horrendous Shunt Sunday afternoon at
Texas Motor Speedway! Where I'm fairly certain it was Townsend Bell telling us
he knew from personal experience that in order to punch a hole thru the SAFER
Barrier was a 50G H-I-T; SHEISA!
As the Nashvillian who went upside down
before spearing the SAFER Barrier sustained relatively minor injuries, albeit
suffered a broken shoulder and fractured wrist in the ensuing contact.
As Conor Daly, who was making his debut at
Texas Motor Speedway seemed overly critical upon himself for his rookie
mistake, after apparently losing the rear of his car upon one of the track's
diabolical seams. While certainly the track's overly "Green" nature
from two days of inclement weather washing the track clean of all rubber, not
to mention the persistence of those dreaded "Weepers" contributed to
racing conditions being less than ideal! As fortunately Conor was uninjured in
the wreck, except for his pride.
For those of you
curious, you can watch the wreck in the following video clip below...
