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Newman repeats call for NASCAR safety team
By SceneDaily Staff
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
AVONDALE, AZ - MARCH 03: Ryan Newman, driver of the #12 Alltel Dodge speaks with the media during NASCAR Sprint Cup testing at Phoenix International Raceway on March 3, 2008 in Avondale, Arizona. (Photo by Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR)
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AVONDALE, Ariz. – Ryan Newman on Tuesday repeated his call for a dedicated safety crew that would travel to all NASCAR events and would be able to meet the medical needs of all drivers.
Newman’s statement came at Phoenix International Raceway, where he was participating in a NASCAR Sprint Cup test.
“The tracks typically have held the responsibility of a medical crew or a safety crew, and NASCAR has their medical liaisons and they have a medical staff that travels with them, but they've got a bigger staff in their catering business to feed their people,” Newman said. “We, as drivers and as teammates, would prefer if NASCAR had a traveling safety team that knew our cars in and out. There's been times I spoke about – I guess it was probably almost four years ago now, at Watkins Glen – when it took them 25 seconds or whatever to get me out of the car, and they didn't know what to do when they got there, and that's not cool.”
Newman said there are “educated people out there” who understand what drivers go through during a crash and who also understand what drivers needs immediately following a wreck.
He said he didn’t see Tony Stewart limp away from a crash Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but heard about it – and didn’t understand why Stewart walked away from his wrecked car.
“I know he walked over to the pace car or whatever and got into a safety vehicle instead of getting into the ambulance, and that's not cool,” Newman said. “I don't know the entire situation, but I'm aware of that, and that's not the way it's supposed to be. Whether Tony said anything about it, I don't know or not.
“As I've always said, it'd be a good idea to have – a great idea – to have a traveling safety team and medical team and staff who are there, not just for the drivers but for the team members, the crew members. There are as many injuries on pit road as there are with drivers on the race track.
“When it comes to medical staff understanding their patients – we've got 15 guys per team, and whatever 15 times 43 is, what, 600? If they had to keep track of 600 people, that's not outrageously difficult – you have 10 people to take care of 60 people.”
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Marie Price said:
Mar 4, 2008 at 6:52 PMRYAN IS SO RIGHT. NASCAR LOOKS AT THE MONEY 1ST.OTHER SERIES HAVE TRAVELING MEDICS, THE LOCALS ARE GOOD BUT THEY DON'T KNOW EACH DRIVER WELL ENOUGH
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» Confirm Abuse ReportCarolyn Jennings said:
Mar 4, 2008 at 8:41 PMI'm sure the other 43 drivers would agree with Ryan...there is a 'need' the correct medical staff to take care of our drivers.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBridget Rohrer said:
Mar 5, 2008 at 9:05 AMWith a background in other types of motorsports, I would say that a dedicated safety team in NHRA Drag Racing has proven its worth many times over. Newman is definitely RIGHT! How about that Seinfeld...
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» Confirm Abuse ReportDouglas Borkowski said:
Mar 10, 2008 at 10:55 AMThis is something that I have been trying to get NASCAR to listen to for more than 2 years. I set up a whole medical program for NASCAR and when I sent it to them I got a note from Brian France's lawyer stating that they "don't accept unsolicited ideas from people outside of NASCAR". No I understand that they alone have all the great ideas, but I felt I had some good ones. The program I proposed would even fund itself so NASCAR wouldn't have to, and I volunteered to travel to every race. Unfortunately, it's been like Jeff Gordon running into the inside concrete wall. Doug
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» Confirm Abuse ReportMarie Price said:
Mar 17, 2008 at 9:16 PMRYAN IS SO RIGHT. NASCAR LOOKS AT THE MONEY 1ST.OTHER SERIES HAVE TRAVELING MEDICS, THE LOCALS ARE GOOD BUT THEY DON'T KNOW EACH DRIVER WELL ENOUGH
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Mar 17, 2008 at 9:16 PMI'm sure the other 43 drivers would agree with Ryan...there is a 'need' the correct medical staff to take care of our drivers.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBridget Rohrer said:
Mar 17, 2008 at 9:16 PMWith a background in other types of motorsports, I would say that a dedicated safety team in NHRA Drag Racing has proven its worth many times over. Newman is definitely RIGHT! How about that Seinfeld...
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» Confirm Abuse ReportDouglas Borkowski said:
Mar 17, 2008 at 9:16 PMThis is something that I have been trying to get NASCAR to listen to for more than 2 years. I set up a whole medical program for NASCAR and when I sent it to them I got a note from Brian France's lawyer stating that they "don't accept unsolicited ideas from people outside of NASCAR". No I understand that they alone have all the great ideas, but I felt I had some good ones. The program I proposed would even fund itself so NASCAR wouldn't have to, and I volunteered to travel to every race. Unfortunately, it's been like Jeff Gordon running into the inside concrete wall. Doug
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