NASCAR Next Gen Safety at The Forefront after Crash Test
The sanctioning body says rumors of dead crash dummies are untrue. Getty Images
In a perfect world, NASCAR Cup Series teams would have completed construction of their Next Gen cars by now, but it’s not a perfect world.
Even after a one-year delay resulting from the COVID-19 shutdown, the new platform is still behind schedule, and it may take a robust schedule of winter testing to get it ready for Daytona and the full season afterwards.
That panel consists of Dr. James Raddin, who participated in the investigation of the death of Dale Earnhardt following the 2001 Daytona 500; Dr. Jeff Crandall, who serves as an engineering consultant to the NFL; Dr. Barry Myers, a professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University; and Dr. Joel Stitzel, chair of biomedical engineering at Wake Forest Baptist Health.
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