Look guys. It's a heart braking situation that happened. There's no doubt. And my heart goes out to the people that are involved.
Now that said, there is no way to minimize all the dangers of racing. In any format.
If you want to minimize the danger then go all the way and don't do it.
Now, the real issue is with score. Who ever heard of running a race one the same road with head on traffic for racers and chasers. This is stupid part that could have been easily avoided. There was a road just south of the highway a mile or two that could have had the east bound traffic on it but score didn't use it and they picked the highway with head on traffic. THIS IS THE PROBLEM. I just can't believe they would do this. And it not like they were not warned before hand. A lot of people saw the potential problem, warned score and they did nothing. THATS THE PROBLEM.
I brought this up in two other threads talking about the accident. The 05 1000 course used this route and I would imagine that was not the only time that little cut off road was used.
I have very little time in a race car, I was mostly a bike racer. But from my view point, this accident is not the normal kind of accident that these race cars are built to withstand. Vehicle to vehicle collisions at these speeds are not the norm. Now someone who has been around a lot longer than me may be able to cite a couple of occasions where this has happened before, but out of all the thousands and thousands of miles raced, when would this head on collision have happened?
When has a builder had to take into consideration a frontal impact from another race car? They build the cars to handle roll overs, some rear "tapping" and build them to hold up to the abuse the terrain throws at them.
Perfect example, BJ's truck. It is one heck of a piece of machinery, but it didn't withstand the boulder. Thankfully they were not hurt, but if it had hit in the A pillar area instead of head on, what would the damage have been? But then you look at Pete's Bajalite, and it rolls over and is able to continue because he built it for that, but would it have been able to withstand a blow to the A pillar?