Very sad to hear. There's a risk to ANYTHING we do, you just hate to see stuff like that.

I used to deliver to the old Diamond P Motorsports offices in Nashville. In their front room was a glass-topped table, the base of which was a Keith Black long-block with a huge hole in the side where a rod had come out of it. It had missed their top-end cameraman (on an elevated lift) by just a few inches during a T/F crash.

A friend of mine in elementary school was hit by a loose tire-wheel from a stock car in the 1970's, and suffered a broken collarbone. My dad; sitting right next to me; was hit in the head with by a good-sized rock at the same track 25 years later. (Mansfield, Ohio, before it was paved.)

I love watching fuel cars at the big-end, but I usually try to sit as high as possible... those parts are moving really fast.

My condolences to those involved.