This incident, as awful as it is on its own has potential for creating impact on racers at our level.

Watkins Glen is a good example of this. Basically, the workers will not go over the rail while cars are on the track. One car in the gravel forces a full course caution and often a blag-flag-all, even though its a 3 1/2 mile course. With an incident like what happened this weekend, it can be used to show there is sound proof of need to stop all racing prior to sending workers on track.

What this means is that more tracks and sanctioning bodies will be likely to go full course yellow, or black-all for what used to be a local yellow.

Moral of the story as it pertains to us racers - passing/poor driving under yellow will end the use of local yellow flags in lieu of full course cautions.

Sorry to have highjacked this thread, it is not out of disrespect, but to point out that this could have happened at a Regional race. Lets hope it doesn't happen again at any level.