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Tuesday afternoon at a hotel in downtown Atlanta, NASCAR officials, stung by criticism of their handling of the investigation into driver Dale Earnhardt?s death six months ago, finally revealed the voluminous results of a $1 million probe into the fatal Daytona 500 crash...
...These factors operating together resulted in head impact," wrote crash injury experts James Raddin and James Benedict in NASCAR's two-volume, two-inch-thick report. "None of these factors alone can be conclusively isolated as the cause" of Earnhardt?s death...
...NASCAR?s slick, two-hour press conference provided a microsecond-by-microsecond dissection of the crash, but did little to quell persistent questions and criticism. The report failed, for example, to determine exactly why Earnhardt?s left lap belt "dumped," bunching in a twisted tension adjuster, causing it to rip like cheap T-shirt...
JUDGMENT CALL In the age of NASCAR, it should have a decent ride...
Tires squeal. Engines rev. No, it's not NASCAR or Indy. It's the sound of a new generation of high-performance go-karts, which are gaining popularity as an alternative to golf and tennis at those spirit-building corporate outings. At F1 Boston, one of the nation's classiest tracks, companies are shelling out an average of $15,000 to $20,000 to hold sales meetings at the 106,000-sq.-ft. two-track facility with full conference amenities. "Everybody has been to too many cocktail parties and golf outings," says owner Richard J. Valentine...