Other measures, such as soft walls, will be continually evaluated and will be put in place when the technology is ready, Helton said. We'll do it because it's the right thing to do. The accident that killed Earnhardt was not much different from many others with less serious consequences. As for the huge void Earnhardt will leave in the sport, no one is certain how that will be filled. I'm sure we will.
Life has to go on. . . .
Somebody's going to come along. Life moved slowly last week in Daytona, though. Nobody, it seemed, wanted to leave. Perhaps they thought that leaving would be like waking up and realizing that this had been a real-life nightmare, not just some dream. But you couldn't buy one.