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Anatomy of a NASCAR Crash
About six crashes occur in every NASCAR race, yet drivers suffering serious injuries are astonishingly rare. We take a look at the physics and tech being used to keep America's favorite wheeled pastime safe for its high-speed stars.
Previous Motorsports Stories
| NASCAR's New 180-MPH Mega-Treadmill: First Look Getting detailed data on the performance of race cars can be difficult as they are roaring along a track. When it opens in Concord, N.C., later this year, a full-scale, high-speed race car treadmill, the first of its kind in North America, will provide teams the chance to crunch the data indoors. (Published in the March 2008 issue)
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| NASCAR's Controversial Car of Tomorrow, Here Today Stock car racing's new standard is safer and potentially cheaper—but it has its detractors. (Published in the April 2007 issue)
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| Deep In The Heart Of NASCAR Country The Charger's suspension is compressed flat to the bump stops as it drifts up Darlington's banking. The steering is getting twitchy and so am I. The passenger side mirror nearly brushes the wall off Turn 1. The next turn comes quicker than I can think. My eyes tell me to hit the brakes, my mind tell... (Published in the March 2006 issue)
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| Bonneville Salt Flat Dreams It's time. Gary Calvert, a 65-year-old member of the Muckleshoot tribe, lowers himself into the coffin-size cockpit of a 14-ft.-long cigar-shaped race car that he built back home in tiny Enumclaw, Wash. He scoots his legs forward until he's lying nearly flat on his back, then watches as his chief me... (Published in the January 2006 issue)
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| Financing A Top-Tier NASCAR Team (Published in the July 2005 issue)
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| Baja 1000 Wrench Gang (Published in the March 2005 issue)
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| NASCAR Goes High-Tech (Published in the March 2005 issue)
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