More Nascar Phoniness  

Of course they did... Something had to be said.  You can't ignore something like that unless your job depends on doing some shilling while in the booth for Nascar. 

My point was that it was obvious that something should have been said by Dale, Steve, Jeff or the other guy right when it happened.  The fact that they didn't was actually kind of awkward, and didn't do anything for their credibility. 

Here's how it was covered when it happened... Jeff Burton even talks about energy being absorbed, but somehow forgets to mention anything about how a safer barrier would have helped to absorb some of that energy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPKSXZIN26Y

Now it's a safe topic (no pun intended), now that Nascar has weighed in.  I'm sure they'll talk about it this week on all the Nascar shows, and will talk about it next weekend pre-race, etc., now that Nascar has given the direction as to how it is to be handled.  It's safe alright... but if one wants to stay employed, they'll be sure to present it in a way that Nascar comes out as the champion of safety and not a huge organization who one would have thought has the resources to have identified the issue problem before it became one.

Nascar doesn't want their drivers getting hurt - I get it.  But wrecks are a big part of their current offering (just watch the promo's for upcoming events) so the least they can do is put safer barriers where needed at all tracks where their events are held. 

Tracks have flaws and it doesn't take accidents and injuries or worse to identify most of them.  I'll bet if you or I were sitting in the stands near the end of pit lane at Nashville, and could see that inside wall just past the end of pit lane, one of us would have noticed the lack of a safer barrier.  I would have, and I'm no safety engineer.

Back to the original point which is, having the boys in the booth going silent on an something that was pretty obvious doesn't help the sport, especially for those of us that question the level of integrity that still exists on a sport that still trades off of having been built on it.