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Originally Posted by jrj3rd
Some of the available photos clearly show the verticle support post about a foot to the side of the impact. 50g will make a lot of that moot
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I wasn't thinking of the posts or their spacing. The thing needs to be stitched together to make one continuous and seamless barrier. Sort of a modular assembly of the sections overlapping and attached in a way that damaged sections can be R & R'd.
Actually the proximity of the post may have exacerbated the problem as the barrier wasn't able to deflect over a long span.
Sure, the layout needs to be altered but even if that barrier created for emergency vehicle access to the track is parallel to the track, someone will hit it. Just not as an acute angle. But 20º+ is still possible when cars start careening.
Phoenix Raceway had the same setup out of T4 up until several years ago when they closed the gap altogether. And it looks for all intents and purposes to be seamless with
softwall in front. Lot of racers in various divisions hit the tail end of that wall when it was open. They still do but there's no abrupt change in the relationship to the direction of travel. so in many cases the just hit and slide along the wall rapidly losing speed.
A perfect example of what I'm talking about can be seen here:
