Rookie Shines But Safety Was the Real Star

Ben Smith writes in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette that while Trevor Bayne won the Daytona 500, the real story from this year's race was safety.

"In the blink of an eye, Kenseth got tapped on the bumper and turned straight into the wall at 200 mph, a head-on shot that happened so quickly, and with such force, you barely had time to gasp."

Smith goes on to write that ten years ago this might have been a fatal accident. However, "The SAFER barrier is what Kenseth, trussed up in a HANS device, smacked Sunday. It’s why he dropped the netting and climbed out of the car under his own steam. You want to talk about Dale Earnhardt’s legacy, 10 years on, talk about that."

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