From the worst to best: NASCAR takes the lead in safety with a $50 million commitment

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NASCAR takes the lead in safety as its Research and Development Center in Concord is involved in about 70 safety-related projects all financed by a $50 million, five-year budget from NASCAR. Gary Nelson and his engineering team work in a 61,000-square-foot, $10 million building which houses a powertrain research lab, with room for a future engine dyno, and a secure storage area and features a computer numerically controlled machining room, a modeling lab and a special surface plate equipped with a ROMER CimCore giant CMM known as GridLOK.

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The guy in the yellow hat

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T.Taylor Warren, a motor-racing photographer describes the accident which he viewed at Daytona in the 200-mile Automobile Racing Club of America event at Daytona where a car driven by Blake Feese lost control on pit road. Warren shoots NASCAR Nextel Cup races and sells his photos to Southern MotoRacing, a biweekly periodical published by Hank Schoolfield.

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Sport: The Gong Show

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Jack Roush will conduct its Roush Racing Gong Show, an event of democratic driver-selection contest unique in major American racing. The contest bears witness to an unbelievable, almost comic seven in which a racecar driver can be arrested and hauled off to jail for reckless driving on the racetrack.

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