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De oorzaak? Bekijk dit filmpje met de finish van Talladega:



Dat had in een potentie kunnen uitgroeien tot een Le Mans 1955 drama De organisatie geeft niet echt een teken van leven om bepaalde veranderingen door te voeren. Wel sterk dat de coureurs op nascar.com om veranderingen vragen. Als die beginnen te roepen dan moet er toch iets niet in de haak zijn

Edwards certainly thought so after the race.

"Hopefully they can do something somehow to change this style of racing," Edwards said. "I guess we'll do this until somebody gets killed and then we'll change it, but that's the way it is."

Others such as Ryan Newman and Dale Earnhardt Jr. said that the new car bunches everyone up so close together and makes it impossible to go fast at Talladega unless you bump-draft with a partner all the way around the track. That is a highly dangerous way of driving a race car at speeds of nearly 200 mph, and makes it difficult to run any other way if you want to run for the win.

Is geld belangrijker dan veiligheid? TV en NASCAR die liever kijkcijfers hebben en tickets verkopen?

"You have to understand that, like, for years, we have had wrecks like this every time we come to Talladega, ever since the plate got here -- and for years it was celebrated," Earnhardt said. "The media celebrated it, the [television] networks celebrated it, calling it 'the Big One,' just trying to attract attention and to bring people's attention to the race.

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