Kyle Larson’s Near Escape After Impact With Tony Stewart’s Driver Trigger Major Next Gen Change From NASCAR
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This year at the Talladega Superspeedway, Kyle Larson suffered a horrific crash, which certainly brought back the memories of 2001 Dayton, which took Dale Earnhardt’s life.
This year, Larson had a crash with Tony Stewart’s driver Ryan Preece at Talladega, which forced NASCAR to make some adjustments in the Nex Gen cars.
The crash at Talladega
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During the overtime restart, Ross Chastain hit Noah Gragson, which started the chaos on the track. Larson was following them, and he made contact with Gragson, which sent the HMS driver spinning. Then Larson came back onto the track and got hit by Ryan Preece. Both cars sustained severe damage.
NASCAR expert analyzed the crash
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Dr. John Patalak of NASCAR recreated the crash and found a lot of new details about the crash. He said, “So we took the cars apart, slowly started from the outside working our way in to see what effect does the crash had on the chassis… we have crash data, we have GPS and telemetry data. And we looked all of that to reconstruct, to come up with the offset, the speed the angle so that we could learn more and test solutions for improvements.”
Dr. Patalak further said, “We’ve taken a lot of the steel structural members and removed material from key elements to make this structure less stiff. We have slots on both sides, we have deleted some cross members between the upright mounts and we’ve treated some of the areas down low that are some of the first to contact the wall on the front clip.”
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