NASCAR to go check out Indy walls: NASCAR officials hope to travel to Indianapolis this week to inspect how the energy-absorbing barriers fared in Sunday’s Indianapolis 500. Indianapolis Motor Speedway became the first U.S. race track earlier this year to pad portions of its walls with an energy-absorbing barrier, which is meant to reduce the deadly G-force spikes in a crash. Speedway officials had the outside walls in all four corners padded. Gary Nelson, NASCAR’s managing director of competition, says series officials want to inspect the barrier soon and talk to the University of Nebraska experts who designed the barrier. “We want to make sure that there are no surprises at the Indy 500,” Nelson said. “We’ve talked to the designers and they’re thinking of making some design changes.” NASCAR officials have said that they would wait until after the Indianapolis 500 to determine their next step.(News and Record)(5-27-2002)
