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Thursday, June 2, 2011
It was 2000. A little 'more than seven months later, Lingerfelt was ready to return. Well, little more than 11 years later, continues to race on pit road by NASCAR driver running at speeds of 45-55 mph. Jump the wall and the race car around the other to respond Zoom speed race, when he changed the tire.
He never thinks twice.
For men who have grown up cars pitting in the sport, it is right.
Of course, the pit lane is a dangerous place. It 's easy to forget that if. Serious injuries are rare. and to protect others - Pit crew members and pilots a week in a choreographed dance in which everyone is working as fast as you can go to get involved.
Drivers try to maintain a constant balance and gear up positions on the decisions with the knowledge of where all the pit crew to whip on and off road ditch. They see their own jackmen racing tire and men for his car. They concern the station looking for crew teams' before them. You try to stay in their race without any labeling.
They are almost always successful in this endeavor. This leads people to take to the pit crews seem just as men do their job.
But what really?
Joe Garonne, the line Racing Furniture is now in relation to all the heads can relate to, "Go stand next to the highway where the speed limiter 55 kmh and walk about three meters and a car, too.? not. But I want to go back to the wall. "
Lingerfelt, can relate to that feeling. He spent "seven months and 14 days" after the restructuring in 2000, broke a leg doing therapy in the phase of the Carolina Panthers, among other sites, in an effort to accelerate its recovery. He wanted to go back.
He's never more than one option. For him and many in this sport more than a job. It 's a passion.
'It's always dangerous, "he said. "But keep your mind because you have a job to do and you can not worry about it. We go there every day and do our job the best of our ability and you never worry themselves sick."
And 'this incident - and others - into perspective.
"It 'was just an accident," said Lingerfelt, who spent 17 years as a pit crew member and now works for Roush Fenway Racing Greg Biffle. "I was on the hood of a few weeks. I do not see, he forgot that the real-time support and eventually was shot."
Lingerfelt had a 14-inch rod in his leg after his accident, but a 2000, which reduced after two years because it was too long leg. He says he never feels the pain of this and more. Over the years he has learned to handle a potential brush with the car, how to minimize risks in case of an event.
"You see it coming way, then jump only once, then it is in the air" look, "said Lingerfelt, when a car running in his preparation." I do not want to be beaten to the ground is when you are hanging really bad . Bounces off the wing or a hood and a way to absorb some impact. E 'when you're standing (are) planted, it is a kind of bad messages. "
He was "a small head wound at the foot," but he did not return.
If it's time to snatch one of these sub-stop 10 / 2, Lingerfelt think just what to do - the thought of all the other cars and the chaos that surrounds Sliding mind.
