One of the big stories coming out of Sunday’s race at Michigan International Speedway didn’t have to do with race-winner Denny Hamlin; it had to do with a massive crash involving Hamlin’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell.
Crash Details
Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott lost control of his No. 9 Chevrolet, and it went careening up the track between Turns 3 and 4 into Bell. That sent Bell’s No. 20 hard into the SAFER barrier.
According to Motorsport, NASCAR communications executive Mike Forde was on the official ‘NASCAR Hauler Talk’ podcast when he revealed that the hit was the hardest a Next Gen car had ever taken. Forde explained that this was determined using a measurement known as Delta-v, which is the measure of speed lost in an incident.
Forde declined to give out a number, saying that this is essentially ‘proprietary data,’ though it is shared with the team and with the driver. NASCAR also measures the G-forces involved in these incidents, and that was also shared with the team.
Original reporting: Fox News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
