“We’ve gone to some of these new racetracks and had bare walls. “I think that spot should have been covered,” Harvick said Saturday about the wall Blaney hit. Kevin Harvick, who has been vocal about safety issues in the past, said there is more that tracks can do to avoid a similar situation. It’s nice that they’re doing something and taking action. Marcus told me they’re going to go through all their tracks and make sure they don’t have anything bare like. “Like I said last week, it’s a shame something has to happen to get a reaction like that and to go change it up. Short-term that’s go through your place and make sure there aren’t any barriers like that.

You need to take all the different precautions you can. “We got these cars that we’ve been working on, it’s been a slow process trying to get them a little better safety-wise. “Yeah, it’s unacceptable,” Blaney said Saturday. Watch highlights from the qualifying session for the Cup Series race on the Chicago Street Course, where Denny Hamlin has pole position for the Grant Park 220. He said he talked with NASCAR President Steve Phelps, NASCAR Chief Operating Officer Steve O’Donnell and Marcus Smith, president and chief executive officer of Speedway Motorsports, which owns Nashville Superspeedway.Įarlier this week, Elton Sawyer, NASCAR senior vice president of competition, called it “unacceptable” that the concrete barrier that Blaney hit was not protected. He sat out the Sonoma race before returning at Nashville.īlaney also talked with NASCAR and track officials about the inside wall in Turn 1 at Nashville not having a SAFER barrier. That’s the treatment Noah Gragson said he followed when he suffered concussion-like symptoms after his crash at World Wide Technology Raceway last month. Having that advice and going and doing it really sped up the process, which was ideal to get me here this weekend.” Go into noisy areas and light conditions and work out and put yourself in these situations with a lot of people. “The way he approaches it is pretty unique. The exercises he gave me to do, essentially at the end of the day it’s a muscle and you have to work that muscle out. “But there were a couple of things in my eyes that he didn’t really like.

He didn’t see anything too severe where I didn’t have to go to Pittsburgh. “He had some concerns, but he didn’t feel like there was ever really a point where I was going to sit out (this week). Collins felt good about it Monday (the day after the crash) when he talked to me,” Blaney said Saturday.

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