But the Wild are dealing with a Covid shutdown, so both games have been postponed. DENVER (AP) – Gabriel Landeskog scored two goals to reach 200 for his career, helping the Colorado Avalanche rebound from an opening-night loss with an 8-0 rout of the St. Louis Blues. That's what I want. There were really highly talented companies and individuals globally that wanted to figure out how to close the gap on the safety element after the 18th.". The Blues next two games were scheduled to be in Minnesota on Tuesday and Thursday. Trademark and Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. That research became the foundation upon which today's more detailed crash studies by NASCAR's R&D Center are conducted. Newman said yes. That shift started the night Earnhardt died, when the phones started ringing at Jim Downing's shop in Atlanta with calls from previously defiant racers, asking the co-inventor of the HANS device how they could purchase one of his head and neck restraints. For a complete ESPN.com experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser. Jack Buck, Mike Shannon, Charlie Spoonhour, Norm Stewart, Whitey Herzog, Tony LaRussa, Stan Musial, Dick Vermiel, Lou Brock, Albert Pujols, Kurt Warner, Ozzie Smith, Hull, Pat Maroon, Keith Tkachuk, Yadier Molina, Adam Wainwright, David Freese. The two teams are in the midst of a seven game series brought on by Covid stoppages of two teams they should have been playing, the Colorado Avalanche and the Minnesota Wild. Atop that roster of safety saviors is Dale Earnhardt. "I would not be an alive racing driver today sitting here," he says. In the 20 years since Earnhardt's death, that number is zero. That fall, Melvin was called in to talk to France. NASCAR hired a Washington, D.C.-based PR firm, which immediately advised France that "being pissed off is not a plan.". Legacy.com enhances online obituaries with Guest … He doesn't want it to become a tourist attraction. The Blues will look to rebound Monday in the home opener at Enterprise Center when the puck drops at 7 p.m. against the San Jose Sharks. The Blues seemed destined for a 3-2 win, until Swansea, IL native Clayton Keller scored a power play goal with exactly :00.6 to play in regulation time. "Blaise was one of my best friends," says Jimmie Johnson, who made his Cup Series debut at Charlotte Motor Speedway that same week. He earned a degree in vehicular engineering from Purdue, taking classes during the week while racing sprint cars on the weekend. Over its first two decades, the R&D Center has overseen the installation and evolution of SAFER barriers (though full-wall coverage has still moved at a sometimes frustratingly deliberate crawl). Proud to Serve – Give $500 to First Responders and Military Who Deserve a Salute! Read Part I on Earnhardt's lasting legacy, Part II on the safety culture before Earnhardt's crash, and Part III on the day of the Earnhardt crash. Before Ezekiel Elliott, Sheldon Richardson and Jeremy Maclin became Ohio State Buckeyes and Missouri Tigers and NFL first-round draft picks, they went to John Burroughs, Gateway Tech and Kirkwood. All of them talk to us. On May 1, while NASCAR was still two weeks away from emerging from quarantine, a list of competition adjustments was issued, based on the Newman findings. The game was forward Mike Hoffman’s first for the Blues. Keller scored in the second period and Kuemper, making his fifth start in the series, earned his 19th career shutout. Safety was always a part of the plan, but after Dale's death, the focus leaned much more into a safety mission.". The first Newman Bar was added in 2013, along the roofline, after an airborne Carl Edwards landed on Newman's roof in 2009 ... and later that same season Newman got airborne himself and landed on Kevin Harvick's roof ... and then airborne Kurt Busch landed on top of him in 2013, all at Talladega. On Feb. 17, 2020, he was high atop the speedway in Race Control. ... rose up and buried a 3-pointer that pulled the Magic within two points at 96-94 with 34.6 seconds left. William Lennon . Members of our team, including Sports Director Martin Kilcoyne, Charlie Marlow, and Rich Gould have covered every significant moment in St. Louis sports since 1987, from the football Cardinals’ departure for Arizona to the arrival of the St. Louis Rams; from the Mark McGwire home run chase to the Cardinals’ World Series titles, to the St. Louis Rams and the Greatest Show on Turf era’s Super Bowl crown; from Brett Hull to Vladimir Tarasenko, we’ve covered the Blues all the way to the team’s first Stanley Cup. What should we be doing different? If his phone starts buzzing during a race, he knows there's been a crash that needs his attention. He doesn't remember anything about the crash, or even about that day except for having lunch with his parents before going to the track. Tri-State Water Power & Air 2021 Sweepstakes. On Aug. 21, 2001, NASCAR released the findings of its $1 million investigation into Earnhardt's crash. "I believe that every driver that ever sat in a race car and lost their life has a part of the legacy of the safety of this sport," says Kyle Petty, who lost his son Adam in a May 2000 crash at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. It wasn't cool to talk about it," O'Donnell recalls. "But I just think about him here, as if he was standing and breathing here next to us, you know what I mean? Those games will be played in Arizona. "I stretched my neck so hard," the eventual 2001 Cup champion said. We cover all the big games that matter. NASCAR worked with IndyCar and the University of Nebraska to test the "soft wall" SAFER barrier, an aluminum and foam wall covering that sucks energy away from a race car upon impact. Helton says that NASCAR's greatest challenge was stepping out of the garage bubble and asking for help, a departure from its longtime wagons-circled way of doing business. He wants it to be an educational tool. At the end of that week, while thousands of mourning race fans gathered outside Dale Earnhardt Inc. in Mooresville, North Carolina, like it was Graceland, Cup Series drivers showed up at the North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham wearing the HANS, the more rudimentary Hutchens device and a science-fair exhibit of extra nets, webbing and race seat attachments, all aimed at bracing the head and body. But he has pored over the car so many times and watched the video even more. The Coyotes then outscored the Blues 2-1 to win the shootout and get the extra point in the standings. The XFL thrived in its reboot season playing at the Dome at America’s Center, and if the BattleHawks return in 2022, we’ll be there to tackle it. As the years have gone by, that seat belt controversy has faded in the wake of the real issue, the possible preventability of Earnhardt's death. In the beginning, it had more of a competition-based mission, and that's still a huge part of what is done here. St. Louis is home to some of the best high school student-athletes who go on to succeed in the pros and beyond. Are the Blues ready for another Stanley Cup run? "I have to thank God and the HANS device.". Every NASCAR racer dreams of carrying a little bit of Dale Earnhardt with them into the cockpit. Those are the questions that I ask at 3 o'clock in the morning when I wake up in a cold sweat, thinking about Adam and thinking about Dale. The photographs start flowing in from NASCAR officials at the racetrack, along with their on-the-spot instant analysis of what happened. "But when Earnhardt died, that needle moved as far as it could go. It also included the new steel roll bars and intrusion plating (a shield to block objects from breaching the cockpit) added to the left rear side of the cage behind the driver's seat, the very area where Corey LaJoie's car smashed into Newman's Mustang on the Daytona frontstretch. Ryan O'Reilly scored two goals for the Blues, including the 200th of his NHL career, the second gave the Blues that 3-2 lead in the third period. At Rockingham, NASCAR held a news conference in a tent erected to accommodate the hundreds of media members there to cover an event that normally attracted only a couple of dozen sportswriters. He believed the belt had likely broken via the force of the collision with the wall, so Earnhardt's fatal skull fracture had already happened. This is the final installment of a four-part series on the life, death and safety legacy of Dale Earnhardt, 20 years after his fatal crash at the 2001 Daytona 500. But to the cameras and Patalak's trained eye, the blip was a solid test of the driver's HANS, seat and headrests. FOX2 Sports is your home for the latest information about the St. Louis Cardinals, the St. Louis Blues, Saint Louis University, the University of Missouri, and the University of Illinois. We'll chew on that for a long while and then go into NASCAR. FOX2’s Gregg Palermo contributed information for this story. "I think there has always been a misunderstanding about R&D, that it was invented because of Dale's death," O'Donnell explains. The conclusion of the report was that Earnhardt had indeed died of a basilar skull fracture, though to many, the true cause of the injury seemed buried under all the data and a raging public battle with Bill Simpson, longtime safety guru and manufacturer of the seat belts in question. It had been there all along. But some of it is not so long ago, as in one year ago on Feb. 17. "So are we standing on the edge of complacency again? Even still, NASCAR didn't mandate head and neck restraints until October 2001, after driver Blaise Alexander was killed in an ARCA stock car event at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Oct. 1. So the Blues and Coyotes are playing each other to keep them both on the ice and not missing any games. If close friends or family ask to see it, he'll show it to them, though he doesn't allow photos. For him to be here. Are the Cardinals making a big trade? "Post-Dale Earnhardt's passing, that conversation shifted. But Newman sees that car all the time. We're going to look at this one day and go, 'Dang, can you believe they drove those cars? Colorado Avalanche center Nazem Kadri, centyer, fights for control of the puck with St. Louis Blues left wing Kyle Clifford, left, and center Ivan Barbashev in the first period of an NHL hockey game Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in Denver. Drivers and fans hated the boxy aesthetics of it, but safety-wise it was revolutionary, creating a larger "greenhouse" cockpit area and moving drivers closer to the center of the car, away from dangerous window openings and walls. In 2007, the R&D Center also birthed NASCAR's Generation 5 car, aka the "Car of Tomorrow." That's what we all want.". THE WORLD HAS not seen Ryan Newman's 2020 Daytona 500 race car in nearly a year. "This goes back to how Dale Sr.'s death impacted the industry, an ongoing effort that never stops, hoping to know what we don't know as soon as possible," Patalak says with his hand resting on a chunk of black foam, just one block in a lineup waiting to endure hydraulic press torture. We can make this even better.' So guess what? The tool that could have saved him wasn't some new invention that needed to be discovered. ", Adds Earnhardt Jr.: "You still gotta look at what you have today and go, 'I'm not OK. For the third straight game, the Blues find themselves with another defeat to deal with. "Yeah, I have two bars named after me now, Newman Bars 1 and 2; that's good company with the guys who have the other bars in there with me, and they don't have two!" We had to ask, what will doing this here mean to another part of the car over there, or to the drivers?". According to Downing and Hubbard's 2019 book, "Crash! The NASCAR chairman asked him the same question about whether the HANS device would have saved Earnhardt. Earnhardt's was the fourth fatality over a heartbreaking span of only nine months. What should we focus on to try and improve these things we've got going on?' Sign up for a newsletter from FOX 2 to get updates about news and weather. Legacy.com is the leading provider of online obituaries for the newspaper industry. The current 60,000-square-foot building opened its doors in 2003. It has become customary to name a new roll cage addition after the driver whose wreck warranted its invention. Is someone going to sign a major free-agent deal? On Feb. 18, 2001, the day Dale Earnhardt died, he was down in the Daytona 500 Victory Lane as "the hat dance guy" who made sure the race winners wore all the correct sponsor caps for all the right photographs. A journey to Dale Earnhardt’s NC roots, 20 years after his death at the Daytona 500 Scott Fowler Hornets’ LaMelo Ball, Gordon Hayward couldn’t be more different, but they’re thriving If you want to believe that he knows that, then that's fine. There also have been numerous steel bars added throughout the cockpit cage area, as well as energy-absorbing foam and the high-speed video cameras, introduced in 2018. A flashing orange dot indicates the racer experienced an ultra-quick but not insignificant G-load. While race teams pressed on through grief, the sanctioning body trudged through a PR quagmire, even as post-Earnhardt television ratings rose. The Blues next games will be this coming Saturday, February 13 and Monday, February 15 against, you guessed it, the Coyotes! With the next superspeedway race scheduled for Talladega Speedway in less than two months, the R&D team looked for any quick-fix issues that might have needed to be installed by race teams as they were building their cars for Daytona's sister racetrack. He died of a basilar skull fracture after contact with Kerry Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt's oldest child. Richard Petty's legendary barrel roll down the Daytona frontstretch in 1988 brought about the Petty Bar, and the Earnhardt Bar appeared after Dale Sr.'s 1996 Talladega crash that fractured his shoulder and sternum. The Lenten season means it’s time to eat some fish, but how much? He's in every roll bar, seat belt, HANS device and wall that surrounds them. DENVER (AP) – Gabriel Landeskog scored two goals to reach 200 for his career, helping the Colorado Avalanche rebound from an opening-night loss with an 8-0 rout of the St. Louis Blues. Thing is, they already do. "I feel like that car is a trophy of something that saved my life. "But when I really watch my crash, you see fingerprints of those other guys in there," Newman says. In 1970, my dad got flung out the window at Darlington and should have died. David Perron also scored for St. Louis. A second generation of "blue box" incident data recorders continues to create a vast library of information, detecting early patterns before they become deadly trends. But then, in 2001, we were going to them and saying, 'OK, talk to us.'". Husso gave up four goals in the final stanza. Another Blues loss to the Arizona Coyotes! I know a lot of drivers -- Ryan Newman, me -- we can thank Dale Earnhardt that we are alive here today. When Newman's car arrived (along with his slightly splintered HANS and his extremely cracked helmet), issues that were discovered were separated into short- and long-term projects. "It's a credit to all the people in the industry," he continues. The difference between that day, whenever it comes, and the tragedies of two decades ago is that the NASCAR garage is no longer so desensitized to death that it will take killing a Hall of Famer to make it hurt enough to instigate change. Most days, Dr. John Patalak, NASCAR's senior director of safety engineering, can be found with his staff in the R&D Center at the controls of superpowered hydraulic pulls and presses, stretching the limits of nylon window nets and conducting maddeningly slow compression tests of piping and foam, to see how they will react to the in-race pressures that are produced in fractions of seconds. He came into this job knowing what race cars do when they crash. Now you are expected to do it.". Instead, they said, 'OK, so where do we go from here?' AFTER FIVE DECADES of slow-moving, reactionary safety efforts, NASCAR now doles out safety-based changes and mandates at a relatively superspeedway-like pace. Are the Tigers, Billikens and Illini bringing in the next big recruiting class? When NASCAR president Mike Helton tried to handle the group of international journalists like he would have the normal Rockingham crowd, it did not go over well, especially when he repeated a mantra he'd already preached at Daytona the day after Earnhardt's death, with NASCAR chairman Bill France Jr. at his side. We'll find more and more flaws with what we have today, just like we did in the past.". France froze out Melvin after he publicly questioned NASCAR's decision to display a frayed and broken seat belt found in the No. "It's like the whole world has forgotten how dangerous motor racing is, and you should never forget that, never, ever, ever. The sons of those other racers with roll bars named for them, Kyle Petty and Dale Earnhardt Jr., catch themselves watching Newman's crash and still can't believe it. "We've made more progress in 18 or 19 years than they made in the first 50 years of the sport, so you have to be proud of that, but at the same time I was fascinated by the reaction to Ryan's accident," Petty says. Sometimes he even goes full Robert Duvall in "Days of Thunder." Newman himself even stopped by, stepping in behind the top-secret pull-down doors where the car was being kept, to try to make sense of how and why he was alive. Philipp Grubauer faced just 20 shots in his 12th career shutout and Cale Makar had three assists for Colorado. You have reached a degraded version of ESPN.com because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer. From the time they went on sale in 1991 through Earnhardt's death a decade later, Downing and brother-in-law Robert Hubbard sold fewer than 300 of their HANS devices, specifically designed to prevent a basilar skull fracture, the injury that killed Earnhardt. and they hired me on the spot." From Senna to Earnhardt," during the investigation Dr. James Raddin, one of the lead investigators, was asked by NASCAR officials whether a HANS device would have saved Earnhardt. How the St. Louis County Library are helping older residents stay connected, How dentists are taking extra precautions to protect against COVID, Planters is hiring ‘peanutters’ to drive Nutmobiles across the US, SLUH grad Andrew Clair navigates life in the NCAA transfer portal, COVID-19 moves Illinois football opener from Ireland to Champaign, Vincent Jackson suffered from chronic alcoholism and concussions, family told deputies, Her Highlights: Florida State infielder shows off athleticism with leaping tag. For thirteen years (1955-1968), each Saturday night, the Geritol crowd could turn on The Lawrence Welk Show on ABC-TV and watch the wholesome Lennon Sisters sing their hearts out.The popular quartet from Venice, CA made their Welk debut on Welk’s Christmas Eve show, December 24, 1955 singing the … We have to fix it.' ", "Being proactive is taking what you know, and cycling through what you know, to try to figure out what might happen and what you could do to prevent something from happening," Helton, who moved on from the NASCAR presidency in 2015 but still serves on the board of directors, explains two decades later. "Reactive is, 'OK, now I've seen something new that I didn't know before, and let's put that in a hopper and see if there's something we can do with that new piece of information. After a scoreless first period, their offense broke out in the second and third. Not even when Patalak is trying to squeeze in some Sunday family time. "In 1964, Joe Weatherly hit his head because he used loose seat belts, and Fireball Roberts burned to death because we were using metal fuel cells. The venue changed and so did the winner on Friday night. When asked for specifics about head and neck restraints, soft wall barriers and other potential safety mandates, Helton replied, "We simply are not going to react for the sake of reacting. I imagine that he knows. Alexander was the last driver to die in a major stock car event. He talks to his race car in a barn. It used GPS tracing, computer simulations, real-life crash tests, photographs and countless other data points to dissect the fatal accident. We got better seat belts, rubber fuel cells and window nets.". Dale Earnhardt's death was the fourth NASCAR fatality over a span of only nine months. In an interview shortly before his death in 2014, Melvin recalled that meeting: "I figured that I would be shown the door. And if he'd had that crash today, but in Earnhardt's car hitting Daytona's wall of Feb. 18, 2001? "I look at my crash and how it started, and the turn into the right and the nose in under the wall, and I'm guessing if you laid the paths out, technology-wise, it'd be fairly similar to Dale's crash.". ', "There was so much information all at once, it was a lot to process. Superman was dead. My life was probably millimeters away or a half a G away, however you want to call it, but it's there and it saved my life," Newman says in an interview for "E:60 Presents -- Intimidator: The Lasting Legacy of Dale Earnhardt.". All rights reserved. Safety was a tough conversation, and it became something that you almost didn't want to talk about it. An unidentified, lone man was seen kneeling before the grave of President Biden's late son, Beau, during Biden's inauguration address Wednesday. "In the mid-to-late 1990s, there were a lot of incidents, a lot of trepidation. So to me, it's personal. "We were already ramping up safety efforts from different things; you could look back at the history of roof flaps [added to cars in 1994 to keep them from going airborne at speedways] and different things that we reacted to in the past," Helton says. Some of that past is way back in, well, the past, as in 20 years ago on Feb. 18. Originally from Ohio, Layton was a Speed Weeks regular after Daytona International Speedway opened in 1959. We offer daily headlines, breaking news, severe weather, and forecast emails. When he looks at that car, that mind is in overdrive, constantly trying to CSI what happened, how everything around him, all of that metal, rubber and foam, moved and bent and crushed in just the right way to keep him alive. 3 Car" was a two-volume, 300-page deluge of information. All of them were featured in the FOX2 Prep Zone before they went off to the SEC, Big 12, Big Ten and beyond. Dale Earnhardt’s death 20 years ago hangs over 2021 Daytona 500 . He said simply "Yes" to a room full of stunned silence. The mangled white, black and blue remains of the No. It became OK to talk about it as a group. His death forced a garage full of people who have always prided themselves on their bravery to grapple with a sensation that is especially foreign among race car drivers. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski). Steve O'Donnell, now NASCAR's chief racing development officer, made the Newman announcement. He is buried in the Beth Hamedrash Hagodal Cemetery located in … That never stops.". Melvin answered, "Yes, sir.". "Dr. John Melvin, the racing safety expert, or Dr. Bob Hubbard would come to talk about safety or the HANS, and we respected them but didn't understand them. To most, it is completely unnoticeable. The last time any of us saw that Roush Fenway Racing-constructed Mustang, we thought we were staring at a coffin. We are a family-owned Ford dealership about 35 miles … But lost amid all the finger-pointing and headlines were signs that the safety needle was indeed moving. But their thankfulness also comes with a warning. In the 20 years since Earnhardt's death, there have been zero. Everybody was all-in on, 'How do we fix this? I have counted on these restraint systems and soft walls and all the things that came from their untimely deaths to keep my life safe, but I sadly lost one of my closest friends, and we lost Dale.". THOSE WHO WORKED in the sport before the 2001 Daytona 500 and still work in the garage today frequently find themselves wrestling with the before and after of NASCAR's mentality toward safety. Instead, summer 2001 was NASCAR's most miserable period. "The plans for this facility were already in place. He had two shots on goal Friday night. The guys that first staggered door bars and first put foam inside of a helmet instead of leather. The teams split the first six games and the Coyotes were at their shutdown best in Game 7. The longer-term projects were steered into the Next Gen folder, as in the next-generation model of NASCAR stock car that was already being designed for 2021 (now 2022 due to the pandemic). "The low-hanging fruit is gone in stock car safety, but you still have to look for those 5 and 10% improvements on all the systems, and that's still happening. Think of all the great characters in St. Louis area sports history. Motorsports can always be safer, but they will never be safe. Earnhardt, Sr, Dale: (April, 29, 1951 - February 18, 2001) Dale Earnhardt, Sr. was an outstanding race car driver who spent most of his career driving on the NASCAR circuit. Over the next few weeks, while Newman recovered from a brain bruise and miraculously little else, the car was in Concord, North Carolina, at NASCAR's Research and Development (R&D) Center, where every piece of every wrecked NASCAR stock car is examined, photographed and scanned into a computer alongside data downloaded from a "blue box" incident data recorder (IDR) and video from the high-speed camera mounted on the roll bar, pointed directly at the driver to detect every movement of every fiber of their safety systems and, most importantly, their heads and necks. It included the addition of a check valve to the oil reservoir tank, which was the source of the fire that was spreading in Newman's car as he and it hung upside down. At the start of the 2001 All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, Jeff Gordon hit the Turn 1 wall at the dreaded 1 o'clock angle but walked away. "But I think the energy level of people wanting to talk about it was at an all-time high after [Earnhardt's death on] Feb. 18, and not just in the garage area; it was global. I'm thankful for our sport being safer. They felt vulnerable. Richmond was one of the first drivers to change from open wheel racing to NASCAR stock cars full-time, which later became an industry … On one giant HD monitor is super-slow-motion footage of a soda can fired from a cannon to see how a laminate windshield holds up versus 190 mph projectiles. It was worldwide. NASCAR will attempt some normalcy at the season-opening Daytona 500 with a live pre-race concert - the first big performance at a track during the pandemic - featuring country music star Luke Combs. It happened again! 3 car, which became the de facto smoking gun. Utah (NBC) (02/01/21)— Authorities are working on a search and rescue operation for a skier who was buried under an avalanche in Park City, Utah. And on yet another TV is footage of a high-speed camera from last fall's Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval event, pointed at a Cup Series driver as his car bounces off a backstretch barrier. 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