Last week I wrote about safety at the racetrack for drivers. This week I am continuing to look at safety at the track, but this time from the standpoint of the fans. If you are a fan of local racing and you have attended events at many different race tracks, you probably have seen a wide variety of safety measures in place to protect, drivers, fans, officials, and anyone else who is there.
Over the past couple of decades we have seen huge improvements in safety equipment used by race tracks and by drivers to protect everyone involved with the sport, but not all tracks and drivers take full advantage of what is out there today. Whether the issue is a lack of money or an unwillingness to part with it, there are some tracks that are flirting with disaster, and the fans are potential victims innocently waiting to be maimed or killed.
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