Actually, now the loneliest person I know at Roush, is a Princeton grad engineer.
I used to know more people there back in the 90's when Roush Racing used to transport their cars up to the wind tunnel in Ottawa.
As for life, yep the HANS makes a difference, as for fabricators, Corey LaJoie's car may have been the kid whose car struck Newman's, but his dad Randy, was one of the first people to develop the kind of seat that allowed Ryan to walk out of that hospital. Geoff Bodine, began ddeveloping roll cages. Necessity, being the mother of invention, and all, after his own wreck. These are developments before they were part of NASCAR's rules.
The development of speed, and safety came from within the ranks of racers, so that people could actually walk away from 200 mph wrecks.
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