At its core, auto racing always was and always will be dangerous. That’s a fact.
Saturday night’s scary crash at Kansas Speedway, where Aric Almirola plowed into Danica Patrick and Joey Logano was a sobering reminder of the laws of physics: Momentum equals mass times velocity.
In the case of Almirola, it was an object that weighed 3,450 pounds hitting another object of the same weight at a speed of around 200 miles per hour. That, by its very definition, is a violent impact.
Logano and Patrick were fortunate to be able to walk away.
Almirola was in stable condition after being airlifted from the track to a local hospital.