Watch the in-car camera from Kyle Larson's car as he wrecks late at Talladega and gets hit by Ryan Preece.
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38 comments
I’m glad that impact was not on the driver side. I can’t believe the roll cage bent and broke apart like it did because that was a violent hit.
@Brad Burke yes I know the cage is different from driver side to passenger side but still either way that would have been a hard impact
@The one thats Wild. actually basically the same only there are more smaller bars in the center part where the door would be the main rollover bar is the same on both sides and that’s where the weld broke from the chassis
You can’t believe the roll cage broke apart…because of the violent hit it took?
Good thing they weren’t going any slower, someone might have been hurt!
@Cody Moe yeah because they are supposed to be built in a way where they don’t break apart like that during violent collisions. I’ve seen harder hits then that and the cage didn’t break just bend so yeah that’s surprising to me.
There’s a 1/4 inch plate welded to the bars on the drivers side designed to prevent stuff from penetrating. called the intrusion plate. He certainly would be hurt or concussed on drivers side but wouldn’t have bent to him like the right side did. He’s just fortunate another driver didn’t come through after and hit him again
You can almost feel the impact from Preeces car at 0:16 christ
What does Christ have to do with it? Our lord and savior
First to say hard hit
They… better take that car to R&D. The roll cage isn’t supposed to sustain that much damage, right?
Right side of the cage doesn’t have nearly the “bulk” or reinforcement that the left side (driver side) has for obvious reasons. It’s not a good thing per se that those bars bent/broke like they did but at the same time, it’s probably better that way on that side of car than if they would’ve held up because I’ve heard so much about how tough/rigid this new car is which is why people were getting hurt constantly last year. When things bend and break, they’ve absorbed some of the energy of the blow. When everything stays perfectly intact, the driver absorbs the whole blow so the key is building the car so that the parts of the car where the driver’s safety isn’t jeopardized have some give while building it like a tank so to speak in the areas that are critical to driver protection. Hope that makes sense because that’s a tough question to answer and engineering these cars to be strong in the right spots and weak in the right spots is a very difficult tight rope to walk.
NASCAR is taking the car
I did it’s job, Larson walked away. I’ll never understand why people question how much something gives when it did what it’s designed to do. T-boned at that speed, of course it’s going to give to a certain degree. It’s not a concrete wall.
@Treavor Chavis It’s actually best that it “gave way” some. Engineers actually took away some of the reinforcement bars in the rear of this new chassis over the offseason because the car was so rigid that drivers were getting concussions from rear impacts due to the chassis not giving way at all meaning it wasn’t absorbing any of the impact. Fans question stuff like that because they don’t understand how this stuff is constructed or why. It takes people who either have been directly involved in racing as participants or people who have a general understanding of engineering and energy dispersion from impacts to be able to understand when something giving way is good vs bad. I think most NASCAR fans don’t fall under either category when looking at the NASCAR audience as a whole.
@Brad Burke Perfectly said.
That will buff out nicely
I’m so glad that wasn’t a driver side hit because it could have been really bad for Kyle Larson or even fatal! After all the fines Nascar has been handed out for stupid things i hope this open their eyes that they have a serious if not deadly problem!
I think that would’ve been fatal on the driver side. Unbelievable impact.
Driver side is designed way differently to the side that got hit. There are extra roll bars for strength and protection of the driver. Either way, if he got hit on the driver side it would’ve hurt
@The one thats Wild. doesnt matter how differently its designed with a hit like that. Doesnt need to bend a cage to be lethal. Thats just superspeedway racing.
A car going in reverse will pivot during this kind of contact as the front wheels can turn, swinging the car around on impact, allowing dissipation with less deformation.
Thin gauge tubing, not welded properly.
If that was on the drivers side it would have been a different story
The xfinity car chassis don’t rip apart on side impact like that…and there chassis are man made just like the old cup cars were. Amazing how 40+ year experience workers know how to build a better safer chassis then a robot
Xfinity cars don’t hold up much better.
Last summer at Daytona, Sheldon Creed got hit so hard in the passenger side it bent the roof, and made the the entire lower chassis bend outwards. Dude’s right-side wheels got skewed from the hit on the other side of the car.
For the love of God, please strengthen these roll cages. That shouldn’t happen
Hope nascar takes a serious look at this car. That roll cage would have hurt or killed kyle if that was drivers side. Can’t believe roll cage broke and pushed in that far it would have been in his lap. The in car view or driver that hit him was brutal. Hope both aren’t banged up too bad.
The cage is constructed differently from the passenger side to the driver’s side…try again.
@Matt Lincoln Didn’t stop you from assuming that NASCAR or the vehicle builder screwed up though, did it?
Sorry, not sorry, but if you comment without thinking, be prepared for some blowback.
@Cody Moe aren’t you tough. Sorry I’m not an engineer I didn’t make a statement claiming I knew anything. Just looked bad and maybe it wasn’t supposed to do that. But if passenger side is softer for design purposes your simple explanation without the attitude works just fine.
Nascar, we got to talk
i hope everyones aware if that was a driver side hit it wouldve likely been lethal.
A car going in reverse will pivot during this kind of contact as the front wheels can turn, swinging the car around on impact, allowing dissipation with less deformation.
Probably not. There is a large metal plate along the side on the drivers side that is not on the passenger side. Maybe broken legs but doubtful if it would be fatal.
The driver side is much more reinforced than the passenger side. Obviously you don’t want the cage bowing up like that but it is supposed to give and bend quite a bit.
This car is going to really hurt someone……..Kurt’s career is dome because of this car…….how much more has to happen before they make serious changes
If this car had rolled after or got hit again I don’t even want to know.
I want to see the driver camera