TRACK REPAIR: Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage was sitting in his office high above the track outside Turn 1 during qualifying Friday when he felt the impact of rookie Michael McDowell’s crash into the wall.
“That was a horrifying crash,” he said. “It’s wonderful that he walked away. I was sitting in my office and everything on my desk moved when the impact happened. Thank goodness (the SAFER barrier) was there.”
McDowell’s crash tore out a section of the wall that was temporarily fixed so that qualifying could resume a little more than an hour after the accident. Gossage said track officials later spent three hours replacing a 28-foot stretch of the SAFER barrier. The piece weighed 12,000 lbs. and took 10 workers to install.
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