Submitted by NASCAR Ranting and Raving Blog

Twenty-six year old Brazilian Rafael Sperafico died this weekend in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos (in Brazil).

I caught wind of this incident yesterday from Marc at Full Throttle, but I was just too beat to write about it.

Marc has also posted a link to this video at his site. It isn’t a pleasant video to watch. Watching someone die is never a pleasant thing to do, but if you do watch it, pay attention to how the car Rafael was driving is hit and look at how it crumpled and how the “green house” (driver’s compartment) was constructed. You don’t have to speak Spanish to understand what they are talking about either.

Now take a good look at the CoT and tell me - I mean it, really tell me - that you can honestly say NASCAR should still be using the old cars and not the CoT.

For all of it’s faults the CoT is meant to be a safer vehicle for our favourite drivers and heroes to use while racing on the track at speeds in excess of 190 mph. That is good enough for me, and it should be for you too. It certainly is good enough for Steve and Charlie at On Pit Row at their Bench Racing Site.

Photo Credit: No idea, help me out if you can.

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