The only thing that paved run-offs do is eliminates track/grass boundaries that could cause racecars to get air and crash even more violently. Another user said that the back straight at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California was paved over after an IndyCar race there in 1999 when racer Greg Moore lost control of…

Or you become trapped in a lake after swerving to avoid an imaginary pelican...

1. I didn’t see the darker gray SUV was the same prototype as the dark red one i was too busy looking at the red vehicle from the rear... lol.

2.The light gray (or silver) i know wasn’t a GMC or any GM vehicle but in hindsight, it does resemble the 2017 GMC Acadia, which seemingly rips off the Toyota Highlander.

3. The…

Doesn’t removing the supercharger qualify as “simplify and add lightness”?

The lighter gray SUV is a GMC Acadia or whatever with those scalloped taillights, and the darker gray SUV is another mystery Hyundai as you can see the matte finish of the inside taillights that are also on the “burgundy” (not really burgundy as Dark Red)... PSeudoedit: at least from the rear view shot. Scrolled up…

Looks like an early 2000s GMC or Chevy Silverado in the front.

Porsche used the 901 and 902 codes internally to refer the the first generation 911 and entry-level 912. Officially they wanted to name them the 901 and 902 but as most of us know, Peugeot had a copyright/trademark/copyleft/idontgiveafuck on three-digit-numbers with a middle zero, so Porsche were forced to circumvent…

I think buttons should be limited to the steering wheel area, like Ferraris or Lamborghinis. My Prius has a touchscreen which I almost never touch due to the stereo, HVAC, and cruise-control being on the steering wheel. I can pretty much do everything without taking my eyes off the road (and thus not be…

A driver is NOT going to wait for the car to be flipped if the car is engulfed in flames. Items on race-cars are tested thoroughly to ensure driver safety isn’t compromised in any situation. In the case where a car comes to rest upside-down, this is one of the more complex issues with open-cockpit cars since there is…

Would you rather have seen him slide at high speed into the wall there, and possibly injured or killed, considering the speeds, had that area not had a gravel trap? The roll notwithstanding, the gravel trap saved his life, end of story.

There’s no gravel traps there. Maybe had there been, and also safer barriers (obviously these weren’t around back then), the crash would have been a more survivable one or even prevented.

There have been instances where gravel traps failed, most notably Jules Bianchi’s fatal crash, the Grand-Am Camaro at Road America in 2011, and many instances where cars just completely soar over the gravel traps. My solution would be inclined gravel traps so they get deeper the father from the track you get. This…

True, but the gravel trap took the force of the car landing and stopped it from tumbling even more. I mean look at the spray of gravel from the landing (the dark spray pattern from the landing point differs from the lighter undisturbed gravel).

Do you mean “Why can’t they attach it to the shoulder guard?”

To all those saying the halos would not have helped or would have trapped him, let me remind you that no halo design had been chosen for the cars officially. Plus many prototype designs have called for a hinge to make egress in emergencies easier.

Closed-cockpit racecars such as GT cars or Touring cars and NASCARS,…

Drivers of closed cockpit GT race-cars would like to reiterate that they get out just fine from cars on fire.

a gravel trap certainly would’ve slowed the car down, instead of that slippery pavement. Pavement does nothing for safety, and SAFER barriers do work, but may still hurt (after all, there’s a metal section that the car actually makes contact with).

Gravel trap stopped Fernando Alonso earlier this morning, had that…

I give this aerial performance three 5.0s (out of 10). Fernando’s crash... 10s...

I wonder if an inclined gravel trap would have stopped the car. As you know, pavement doesn’t have much friction compared to a gravel trap... plus gravel traps have give, unlike a paved run-off which is all cemented together and rigid.

That was my dad and mine’s reaction as well. Then the camera switched to the ground camera and when we saw the mangled wreck up close for the first time, our jaws just dropped and we fell silent. It was the first time i really felt scared for the driver’s safety since Jules Bianchi passed.

Or maybe it’s the Meyrick Curse. He was at the wheel when the DeltaWang penetrated the rear of a stalled Prototype Challenge car at Daytona, and at the wheel today when his ride had a premature... something...