And the ugliest girlfriend in NASCAR award goes to...

This post is about courage. I wouldn't touch the answer to that headline with ..... I just wouldn't touch it.

Besides the fact that any choice of the answer to that question would likely make an orchid look plain, who would have the guts to put up a vote?  Nobody I know and, probably, nobody sober in a NASCAR garage.  Too scary.

Who is more fearless than the race car driver? 

I read a post this morning on Full Throttle.  There is a link, in the post to a video of the crash that killed Rafael Sperafico this past weekend.  I watched the video and it is chilling.

When you watch, you see a moment when a race car driver dies.  I have seen these things before.  There is little doubt of what is happening when you see them.  Is the ability to go out and do that job - drive a car at the limit -  after seeing something like that, courage or something else?

I can't relate, not really. But I don't drive a race car for a living. Maybe drivers just lack the imagination to put themselves in that video - that theory has been out there.  My Italian grandmother called drivers "stupid boys".  I have, for most of my life, thought them heroes.

There has been plenty written and said about NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow program.  NASCAR has emphasized the increase in the safety of the car, while pundits bitch about how it looks, or turns, or fails to turn.  Today, I am glad it's safer.

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[marc]

Here... here, I think all of us (aside from those that NEED something to complain about) agree the CoT is a much safer vehicle.

As are the race tracks due to the Safer Barriers.

I neglected to add this, guess you could call it "irony," to my post.

It was just a couple days prior to this accident the story broke about an Argentinian race team being the first to construct the CoT out of the USA.

As I read the original reports of the accident my mind spun back to a South American CoT being built.

I can't help but think sometime in the next few days or weeks someone will be knocking on the Argentine's garage door.

If not their stupid.