Nascar press conference

[Scott]

At 10:08 21-02-01 -0500, you wrote:
>As for rain running, would you want to be running that near concrete
>walls in the rain? I DO think they run in the rain on the road courses,
>though I could be wrong. There is something to be said for 3400 lb "race"
>cars (or should that be "tanks").


Ahhh... but in  an 800lbs race car is much easier to spend much of the 
crash energy in a deflection and spin rather than a dead stop into a wall. 
Remember, time is your friend, on average the longer you can draw out the 
time of the energy dissipation the higher your chance of survival.

Scott