NASCAR is testing crushable metals, such as aluminum foam, which could help absorb some of the shock of a crash. “On the advice of our two outside experts and car manufacturers, they said about 80 percent of what we could do to improve things would be inside the cockpit and the other 20 percent would be with the rest of the car,” NASCAR’s Jim Hunter said. He added that NASCAR is designing a “car of the future,” which will be bigger and feature a larger cockpit area. “We have to do that over a period of years so we don’t (make everything in the garage) obsolete overnight,” Hunter said.( Daytona Beach News Journal )(5-7-2003)
