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Joey Logano walked away from a tumbling crash at Dover unharmed. Larry McReynolds fires up his webcam to talk about the safety features of the Car of Tomorrow.
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" This new car that race and full time for the second season. In 2000 and we've wasted little part time sixteen races in 2007. What was originally called car -- tomorrow. There's probably not a person in our sport. Not. Competitor a driver or crew chief and owner crew member media broadcasters. It's not tall dale on this car and I still don't believe this car from a performance standpoint even though it's a long way. Steele could use a little bit of work. But I always say and I've been -- the gas probably -- a lot of negative things about this car. When you look at their crash that twenty Carlson -- ineffective he Joey MacDonald. -- way. You let's look at NASCAR say thank you for creating this race car. You know we we sit things about it that we didn't feel good about. But from a safety standpoint this car absolutely does everything it should be. In and I think you kind of put aside all the bad things and negative things it's been said about it because I think along with the safer barrier when he didn't hit the ball. In fact that the seats are constructed his neck restraint device drivers I'll have to wear but the way this. New car is constructed. That's the reason we could -- usually gone college's Skinner twelve minutes after he was involved in his crashing -- in the infield peers and are not just. Look at so many crashes over the last two years it you just went oh gosh want to crash. Jeff Gordon has been involved in several problem. When you look at the fact -- horror. He hit the wall at Las Vegas Motor Speedway last year NL was not in an area where there's a safer barrier -- while experience. Even though he said he was one of the hardest hit he's ever taken. He walked away and we interviewed shortly after that speaker and Jeff Gordon had a -- at Watkins going in just a few weeks ago. Come into the short she would need -- 77 or Chambliss though. Even though I don't think we can sit steal in this carnal thing NASCAR or anybody else to -- still only. It gets an a plus plus is or is the job it's doing from a safety standpoint."
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