[WVGrandma4Kasey]

MARTINSVILLE, Va. - Mark Martin suggested Friday at Martinsville Speedway that wearing a glove bright enough for drivers to see from behind it would help prevent accidents like the one he was in at Lowe's Motor Speedway last weekend. more

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It should be used at all tracks. Anything that makes the race safer should be investigated at least.

[nascarfan24]

they should wear gloves that are really bright or they need turn signals! Just kidding!

[Bob Tanner]

Since wrecks such as the one J.J. and Mark were involved in last week are, far and away, the exception rather than the rule, I'm for NASCAR staying out of it until a reoccuring problem exists. NASCAR never saw a problem that thjeir regulation had the potential of making it worse. (Can you say, R-E-S-T-R-I-C-T-O-R P-L-A-T-E, boys and girls? Fine. I knew you could.)

The tracks would whiz and moan but a more effective solution, IF NASCAR really believes this is an actual problem, is to start the pit entrance in the middle of the back stretch. The fast cars are coming out of the turn up against the wall, leaving the inside of the back stretch virtually empty.

White gloves??? Well, I guess they'd be visable to anyone sitting on the hood of the car. But riding behind a car, looking thru a HANS device, roll bars, roof flaps stoppers, and who know what else? It might work every so often, but I really don't see it as a solution to a possible problem.

But, what do I know?

[nascarfan24]

i disagree i think nascar should do something

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Originally Posted by nascarfan24

they should wear gloves that are really bright or they need turn signals! Just kidding!

Other than the obvious reason why do they not have brake lights and/or turn signals ???

[nascarfan24]

well now that i think about it some form of turn signals would help...

[WVGrandma4Kasey]

Originally Posted by nascarfan24

well now that i think about it some form of turn signals would help...

They would have to be crash poof, someway to power them, and of course a way to activate at 200 mph. Gloves, turn signels, what ever, its racing. Its the way they chose to make a living, and there is a risk. You make it as safe as it can be made, how much more can a driver be expected to do?

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by WVGrandma4Kasey

They would have to be crash poof, someway to power them, and of course a way to activate at 200 mph. Gloves, turn signels, what ever, its racing. Its the way they chose to make a living, and there is a risk. You make it as safe as it can be made, how much more can a driver be expected to do?

Bravo! Well said.

IRT Turn signals: Driver "A" is leading with Driver "B" closing fast, in a car with better tires. Driver "A" knows he's going to get passed on the inside off of turn 2...Presto, he hits his left turn signal and the car about to pass him checks up for fear he'll nail a tuning car.

Naw. It ain't broke. Please NASCAR, don't try and fix it.

[wardfan]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

Bravo! Well said.

IRT Turn signals: Driver "A" is leading with Driver "B" closing fast, in a car with better tires. Driver "A" knows he's going to get passed on the inside off of turn 2...Presto, he hits his left turn signal and the car about to pass him checks up for fear he'll nail a tuning car.

Naw. It ain't broke. Please NASCAR, don't try and fix it.

Yea and then they forget to turn it off like people on the highway. Or maybe they could get real headlights so they can flash the highbeams to move them out of the fastlane. Hee Hee. But you know I am begining to wonder why they don't go with a speedometer since with the electronic timing so many have been caught speeding on pit lane. I know there is a reason for that that Bob will explain for me.

[nascarfan24]

well some people say nascar won't allow spedometers because they fear they would lose control over the sport, whatever that means!
but i like it better with just a tach!

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by wardfan

Yea and then they forget to turn it off like people on the highway. Or maybe they could get real headlights so they can flash the highbeams to move them out of the fastlane. Hee Hee. But you know I am begining to wonder why they don't go with a speedometer since with the electronic timing so many have been caught speeding on pit lane. I know there is a reason for that that Bob will explain for me.

They have a speedometer; they call it a tachometer. At every race the pace car takes at least one lap through the pits at EXACTLY the speed limit. The drivers calibrate their tachs at this time; i.e., if the pace car is going exactly 40 MPH and the car's tach reads 1400RPM's, then the driver knows that if, when he's on pit lane, his tach is reading 1500, he's speeding. Simple as that.

It's just a piece of unneeded equipment, something else to go bad.I've had a couple of people tell me that there is also a technical problem with using a speedo but I've never understood that. It's always seemed to me that if we can put a man on the moon, and put 50K volumes of so-called music inside a chop the size of DW's brain, we should be able to figure out how to put a speedo in a race car, but what do I know? Ergo, I opt for the first reason; it's just not necessary.

[wardfan]

Bob, I know about the tach and the rpm's depend on what gear your in right? But you left me hanging, I've heard of a speedo but only the one you wear, so please, tell me the rest of the story.

[wardfan]

what do you think is uglier, Kyle Busch in a speedo or the way Mark Martin's car looked like last week?

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by wardfan

Bob, I know about the tach and the rpm's depend on what gear your in right? But you left me hanging, I've heard of a speedo but only the one you wear, so please, tell me the rest of the story.

Yep on the gearing. It's a given that they'll hit pit road in the same gear each time.

IRT speedo; forgive me. Old motorcycle jargon that's residual with me.

Besides, I was under the impression (old people get "under the impression" a lot) that speedo's were a thing of the past. I thought all the "really kewl"-for those of you who have an education, that's new-wave terminology for 'cool'-people wear thongs or go sans skivies?