Study Shows Deaths Rising at Small Tracks

Newsobserver.com has run a study of deaths in motor racing during the last 20 years and found some surprising information. While large oval tracks and superspeedways cut their deaths from at least 24 to at least 10 in the past decade, small tracks continue to account for half of all racing deaths - at least 121 deaths since 2001, up slightly from at least 115 the decade before.

Drag racing has had the biggest increase in deaths, jumping from at least 42 deaths in the decade before 2001 to at least 58 since. In 2010, at least seven people died at drag races.

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