Jann Scott’s Journal is the story and life of Boulder Icon and talk host Jann Scott. He has been in print, on radio and on TV in Boulder since 1989. Some consider him the voice of Boulder’s soul.
Motor racing has never been safe for the drivers or spectators. The fiery crashes have been horrendous over the last 100 years.
Improvements have been made to protect the drivers, but as was evidenced by today’s Daytona fiery crash into the grandstands, spectators are at serious risk at every race track in the world. The catch fence at Daytona Speedway did not work. It did not keep fiery hot debris from going 2 story’s into the second tier of seats. 28 people were injured today and it is a miracle that the entire car with a load of high octane fuel did not go into the stands and kill hundreds of people. It has happened before and it will happen again.In fact every year race cars crash into grand stands and kill spectators. It happens at short tracks all over America. It happens at the road courses in Europe . It happens at off road rallies. It happens at drag races, F1 races and Indy car races. It happens at boat races and motorcycle races, It happens a lot.
The racing industry tries to suppress news stories covering these disasters, but it spilled out all over CNN today. Travelling at over 200 miles per hour it is easy for an Indy car, Nascar or drag race car to be launched into the stands and kill people. It happens. The big lie is that it does not happen or that race promoters care about their fan base. They don’t.
All of these race tracks are not safe. Will it take a major catastrophe for the feds to step in and set safety regs ?? probably.
Nascar in particular sets races where there is the maximum danger to drivers and fans. They pack thousands of people close to the speedway where a car could fly into the stands and explode. They create races that at extremely high speeds with cars packed together which ensures that they will have multiple big wrecks.
The races are designed for big screen TVs with millions of home viewers. Crashes are the high point of every race. Auto racing has become enormously popular and is a blood and fire sport. It’s not about the racing. It is about the disaster that takes place on your TV every Sunday.
I call for a federal investigation into all motor sport events in America including the Indy 500, the NHRA, Nascar and SCCA. All of their race tracks and city road courses are flat out dangerous, unsafe and thoughtlessly constructed. It’s time.
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Jann has driven and raced high speed race cars. He has seen spectators injured at races by flying debris.
Occupy Denver has made the front pages across America today. Why? Because the police tried to force ably remove the protesters from Civic Park. BIG MISTAKE The mayor, Governor or police have absolutely no idea what is at hand here.
I am old enough to remember the police pushing everybody around during the 60s. Most Boomers are. And we don’t like seeing a bunch of politicians and cops pushing our kids and grand kids around. It’s beginning to piss us off. Word to the wise. Leave our kids the hell alone and go after the Bankers.
Now in Boulder the police and city are smart enough and professional enough that they would never ever get caught up in trying to bust up peaceful protests. congrats.
Mountain Bikers I find myself agreeing again with Macon Cowles. He seems to be smarting up as he ages. I do ride a Mountain Bike. At 65 I go easy, but from my auto racing days on dirt I still know how to put a few moves on the kids in a corner. But cyclists have a tendency to be rude and run people off bike paths and trails. So they need to take their fast bikes out in the woods where walkers, strollers, hikers, moms kids and seniors won’t get run over.
Marijuana I do think the entire medical marijuana con should be turned into legalized pot sold in liquor stores. It should be controlled, packaged, taxed to beat all hell and let it fund Medicare. What other drugs are out there that are popular? Coke? Heroin? Legalize them too. Tax em and finance health care and social security. Lets legalize prostitution too. Fuck it. Just legalize and control all vice. Tax vice and fund treatment. That will essentially eliminate big crime and we as a country can get on with living. I mean what the hey, drug sales, prostitution are huge in America. The are not going away and we are losing 100s of billions in tax revenues. Leave the morality to the churches, treatment to the Docs and decriminalize all of this bullshit.
From Americas most famous small city
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado