Justin Thomas was the driver, Atlanta was a 1/4 mile flat track the same as Lowe's which they run the summer shootout on. During the Summer shootout and other races held at Lowe's they install and temporary catch fence on the pit wall (back stretch). Atlanta never did this but because of this wreck it is now in discussion.
I use to think that big wrecks only happened at big high banked fast tracks until years ago when the Klascar Tour was racing at Mountain Speedway which is a flat track. It's like 1/3 mile track and as I was running in fourth place I watched a lap car get into the 2nd place car(Jason Rochelle) and he went flying through the air rolling across the catch fence into the flag stand. Now Justin's wreck at Atlanta is just more proof that it doesn't matter if the track is banked, flat, small, or large. Bad wrecks happen in open wheel racing no matter what and who ever says Legends are not open wheel cars is just ignorant. Although the fenders help and look nice, it doesn't take much to rip one off and wheel hop.
The only thing we could do as drivers to keep things like this from happening is race smarter and with more respect for one another.
