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Horsepower reductions are a short-term option until NASCAR can take harder look at the Next Gen car in the offseason.

by elongating the time of an incident. But there is always a peak point of g-force when there’s contact with the wall. The faster a car hits the wall, the higher the peak point of energy that goes through the cockpit.

An exception is the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where in this year’s spring race the pole speed jumped by 4.387 mph compared to the last available pre-pandemic qualifying session with the Gen 6 cars. Coming immediately after Daytona, the qualifying speed at Las Vegas, where drivers spend more time in the turns, suggests higher cornering speeds for the Next Gen car due to its flat bottom and rear diffuser.

How the cars hit the wall is important, too. A close review of the crash in 2016 at Michigan that led to the injury that eventually ended the career of Earnhardt Jr. shows a similar type of impact to those of Busch, whose rear corner hit at Pocono, and Bowman. Introduced with the Car of Tomorrow, a rigid chassis structure has verifiable safety benefits when used in conjunction with safety cocoons around the driver, especially when combined with crushable structures in the car. The carbon fiber seats, head surrounds, six-point harnesses and head restraints such as the HANS prevent basal skull fractures and other serious injuries.

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