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From 2013 to 2019, the company sponsored NASCAR Xfinity Series team JD Motorsports, [7] sponsoring drivers who have included Ross Chastain, Landon Cassill, and Jeffrey Earnhardt. [8] During one 2017 race, Flex Tape was used to repair crash damage on the car that the company sponsored, which was driven by Garrett Smithley .
The combination of lighter vehicles, harder tire compounds, and PJ1 results in less grip. Since the racing drivers avoid surfaces with PJ1 during the race, marbles from tire wear collect there. This leads to a slippery lane. In the IndyCar races of 2019, 2020, and 2021 at Texas Motor Speedway, this resulted in incidents attributable to PJ1. [4] [5]
During a series of deaths of several drivers, NASCAR began researching a new, safer car. After a seven-year program, NASCAR presented a design for a new car. The new car, known as the Car of Tomorrow, features a reinforced roll cage. The left side skin has a steel plate for better resiliency in crashes.
The 2002 NAPA Auto Parts 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series stock car race held on April 28, 2002 at California Speedway in Fontana, California.Contested over 250 laps on the 2-mile (3.23 km) asphalt D-shaped oval, it was the tenth race of the 2002 Winston Cup Series season.
The impact energy to the car and driver are reduced, and the car is likewise not propelled back into traffic on the racing surface. The SAFER barrier also lessens damage to the car itself, thereby reducing repair costs. After its introduction in 2002, nearly every oval track on the IndyCar and NASCAR circuits had the device installed by 2005 ...
In 2002, NASCAR officially mandated fire suits for both drivers and crew members servicing the car during pit stops. This was in response to non-fire-related incidents in the previous season, including the death of Dale Earnhardt at the beginning of 2001, and a pit road accident at the Pennzoil Freedom 400 near the end of the season.
“I love this racetrack. I love short-track racing in general. And I hate that we’ve lost one in order to do this.”
The furor over when sprint car driver Kevin Ward, Jr. was killed at a New York state dirt track exposed toxicology reports finding he had marijuana led to the World Racing Group, sanctioning body of the World of Outlaws and DIRTcar series, started regularly testing the sprint car and late model series drivers in 2017. [17]