| Title: | OURGNG::SPORTS - Digital's daily tabloid |
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I was watching ESPN's Saturday Night Thunder the other
night. The 30-lap final was on the 18th or 19th lap when
a wreck occurred. No big problem, but it took a while
to get everyone sorted out.
Restarted the race with about 12 laps to go. Rich Vogler
was leading. Coming into the 4th turn (just before the
main straight) something happened to his car. Next
thing you know, parts are flying everwhere. Just as
the car (minus the fuel tank) stops on the main straight,
you see Vogler's helmet rolling toward the inner side of
the track. I thought "God, that musta been some collision
he had with the wall."
They took him out in an ambulance. Later, on Sportscenter,
they said that Vogler had died of massive head injuries.
Great driver. Too young to die.
Scott
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| 301.1 | WMOIS::JBARROWS | Too much is never enough | Mon Jul 23 1990 09:52 | 9 | |
Vogler was only 40 - he was supposed to start the AC Spark Plug 500
yesterday.....his spot was left open in memory.
Sportscenter on ESPN last night said that his father died of a similar
fate in a car in Indiana also.
Good racer....big loss
Wheel
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| 301.2 | Another Accident | RONALD::VENDER | Mon Jul 30 1990 09:15 | 16 | |
Over this past weekend, I was flipping channels on the tube and came
across some auto race (Die Hard 500??). The showed all the cars going
into the pits, during a pause in the race. I don't kmow much about
racing and have never seen the pits. It was so crowded with the
support teams running around their vehicles, I was thinking to myself
that it was amazing that there weren't any accidents. Yhen sure as
hell, about 5 seconds later you see this car come into view out of
control, and it skids int this car as it was leaving the pit. The cars
didn't have a serious collision, but the out of control car hit 4 of
the other car's pit crew. It looked pretty bad on the replay, but I
don't think anyone was very seriously hurt(outside of broken bones),
but I'm not sure.
Did anyone else see this? Are the guys okay?
TomR
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| 301.3 | Injured people are OK | CIM::BROWN | Mon Jul 30 1990 09:55 | 16 | |
re. -1
I saw the accident. The guy who changes the right rear tire on
Leslie's car got the worst of the blow. The lucky part of the
accident was that Leslie's car was leaving the pits. If it wasn't
he would have been sandwiched between both cars. I am pretty
sure that he is ok.
The commentators mentioned that NASCAR is trying to control some of
the actions that occur in pit row. Previously there has been some
instances of drivers trying to distract other pit crews by driving
close to them. The above case was clearly a driver losing control
of the car.
/pjb
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| 301.4 | more info | SHALOT::MEDVID | muscle and hate | Mon Jul 30 1990 10:06 | 11 |
Actually, the car that ran into the pit crew was the victim of another
car that bumped him into the grass and then was hit from behind by
another car thus creating the spin into the crew. The driver was a
rookie.
The four injured crew members were examined and released from the
hospital.
Lucky this time.
--dan'l
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| 301.5 | More ... | SHALOT::HUNT | Wyld Stallyns Rules | Mon Jul 30 1990 10:10 | 15 |
As you can guess, NASCAR is pretty popular down here in Charlotte. The
evening sports newscasters spent a lot of time reporting on that
accident you saw at Talledega.
They were all speculating that the brakes locked on the car that slid
into the crewmen.
Talledega and Daytona are the two most dangerous tracks on the NASCAR
circuit. These are the tracks that have mandated a lot of the
engineering changes such as rear spoilers and restrictor plates that
are designed to keep the cars *under* 200mph. Seems that when those
stock cars get over 200mph on those two tracks they have a distinct
tendency to "fly" which puts the fans in the stands in danger as well.
Bob Hunt
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