NASCAR, A Danger To Itself

Maybe it's rust from a long off season, maybe it's just complete ignorance on NASCAR's part, but when I, from North Carolina, can tell that the track is wet in California, it says that someone in the NASCAR booth was overlooking something important. Driver safety.

Sure they can make teams pay millions upon millions of dollars to build newer, safer race cars, but when their own money is on the line because of a rain delay, they send the drivers out on a wet race track, causing one of the scarier wrecks I've seen in a long time.

Lives on are the line here, and NASCAR put cars on slick tires- that would be dangerous at slow speeds in wet conditions - on a race track with water running out from it like faucets. Honestly someone has lost their mind.

And why in the world the TV coverage would seemingly ignore the fact that NASCAR has made such a huge mistake? Only pointing out that there is water coming from the track, not pointing out that NASCAR made the decision to put the cars on it, even when drivers were saying repeatedly that the track wasn't ready. I mean, let's not be cowards about it. I was listening to Dale Jr.'s radio and he made the comments that he was sure it would be slick on the racetrack because of the weapers. Drivers were warning other drivers that they were going to avoid certain parts of the track because of the water, and still NASCAR started the race. And why? So the Cup series wouldn't be competing with the Oscars for ratings?

I don't know the answer, but I sure as hell hope NASCAR has some answers because the stuff they pulled was ridiculous and dangerous.