Was anyone there personally?

[70NPORT]

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/06/02/pace-car-pandemonium-1971/

 

[1978 NYB]

I should of been driving......LOL!

 

[azblackhemi]

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/06/02/pace-car-pandemonium-1971/

Yes, all those people falling out of the stands were there personally!

 

[Samplingman]

He needed a marker to figure out when to start breaking?? WTF?

I think I may know someone who was there, I'll have to ask.

I was only 8 at the time and would have been more interested that John Glenn was in the car then a bunch of guys going around in circles for hours.

 

[AAR65]

You guys have to remember, back in those days the pace car would carry the field through turns 3 and 4 at around 120 mph, than duck into pit road at speed. But the start/finish line is pretty much halfway through pit road. They had to maintain speed, on bias ply skinnies by todays standards until halfway through the pits. Not as easy to do as it sounds. On Olds lost it the year before on lap 102 the year before. That guy got lucky and hit nothing.

 

[65 500]

I know a guy that was in the photographers stand when the Challenger hit it, I don't think he got hurt, but I'm pretty sure he fell on his head at some point in his life. :confused2: