have there been any major accidents in the races? (Page 2 of 2)

I've driven one car with a radio (the Super Snipe) and two without (the ZomBee and my own) and found that a radio is more of a distraction than a comfort.

Then again, I also don't have a cell phone, so my standards of comfort in such matters may be atypical.

The radio came in pretty handy at last year's MSR-H race.  I had driven a 7 - 9 stint, a 1 - 3 stint and was in the middle of a who-the-hell-remembers late morning stint when the track went full course caution.

I radioed in, "Anybody heard any good jokes lately?"  Angie did her best to entertain me for a couple minutes while circulating behind SpaceFrank's Dart as it ran full-out under caution.

And I seen at lot of accidents on the Dan Ryan over the years.

Haha, yes! That was probably me in the Dart. I don't like to hold up faster cars more than I have to. It's impolite!

Lemons has a much lower chance of getting shot than driving on the Ryan also.  S/F....Ken M

We got hit pretty hard once, from the side by a car whose brakes had failed, broke the wheel, bent the control arms, bent the rear subframe, mashed in both passenger-side doors, and punted our car off the track. It looked pretty ugly, but the driver was strapped in and wearing a HANS. He walked away from it, a little sore and cranky, but nothing serious. The car needed the corner suspension from a junkyard car, a shock absorber, a wheel, and an aftermarket toe adjuster to compensate for the bent subframe. We still race it. The car that hit us was a mess; I think that it had to be retired permanently, but I think that their driver was also uninjured.

I think that Lemons is pretty good about accidents and safety, mostly because they are quick to black flag any contact or loss of control. It keeps most drivers from getting too aggressive, because nobody wants to sit out for several hours. We raced at another crapcan series last weekend and it was a mess. It rained most of the race and we had a suspension problem that we didn't discover until after the race was over. We had at least four offs and three minor contact incidents and never got flagged; it looked like nobody did. There were a lot of badly smashed up cars in the paddock. I don't recall any injuries though, apparently all that safety stuff works.

Actually that is one of the good things about the tech inspections, even though our car has been through it a bunch of times, each time they go through it pretty well to verify everything.  If there is something unsafe about my car I would rather find out about it in the pits before the race than on the track while something bad is happening

I took the ambulance ride and got my T-shirt cut off by the paramedics. 

Concussion, amnesia, and hey - I'll just put these here:

Still have mobility issues with the wrist and fingertip. 

I always race with a Necksgen now and wear arm restraints even though its not required.

Technically that has only been accurate as of April 30th of this year; that was the 20th Anniversary of Ratzenberger/Senna.