Winning Daytona 500 team owner Rick Hendrick wants to find out what allowed the front clip of Kyle Larsons car to be sheared off in Saturdays Nationwide Series race. He is willing to work with NASCAR to develop technology that will help prevent another such incident that left 28 fans injured when debris flew into the stands. Larsons car went airborne into the catch fence on a horrific last-lap crash. The engine, built by Hendrick Motorsports, was separated from the car and landed on the concrete in front of the Campbell grandstands between sections H and I. One of the tires with the hub attached sailed over the fence and hit two fans, sending both to nearby Halifax Heath with critical injuries, one life-threatening. Both, according to a hospital representative on Monday, are stable and no longer critical. ‘I think the fence did its job’ Hendrick said during Mondays Daytona 500 champions breakfast for driver Jimmie Johnson and the No. 48 team. ‘Ive never seen the clip come off before. They say they havent found parts of the transmission. ‘What happened to the clip, there might be something else we can do. Ive never seen that happen.”( ESPN )
