Crash Video of the Week: Montoya's Cookout
Yep, it's time to play "armchair safety worker" with Juan Pablo's marshmallow roast of a crash on lap 82. Watch below and you decide at 0:33 when JPM gets his car stopped and he scrambles out if the response was adequate.
After the TV announcers jumped on the case of those safety workers that were plainly in view of Montoya's car, NASCAR made sure to note that those workers -- the ones in the red suits with fire extinguishers -- were not responsible for going on to the race track.
To me, that's understandable, but I think one error was made in that Montoya's bumper continued to burn once the appropriate firefighting crew arrived because they couldn't see the flames. Shouldn't that be a radio call from the scoring tower?
"Hey, uh guys, make sure you douse that fire next to the gas tank. Might be good. Yep."
Just a thought.




