Full Time Rescue Workers

[pettyfan4life]

# Gordon wants full-time rescue workers: Four-time Winston Cup champion Jeff Gordon wants NASCAR to hire full-time rescue workers for tracks. "I have some concerns because it's basically local (fire and rescue workers) that they kind of train once they get (to races)," Gordon said. "I think we should have a team that travels with us that know the cars, know the tracks, know the drivers. Have these local people assist them." CART and the Indy Racing League have teams of rescue workers who travel to each race and receive extensive training related to racing accidents and other safety issues. NASCAR relies on tracks to hire local fire and rescue workers. Three times in the past eight months, twice at Daytona and at Las Vegas, workers' response abilities have been questioned.(USA Today)(3-12-2003)

 

[DJFan]

I'm pretty sure this is already in the works, remember in 2001 when Nascar brought on the Medical consultants to track drivers Medical histories and make decisions for them with regard to drivers abilities immediately following incidents that involve injuries. That same article stated that part of that traveling MD groups responsibilities would be to assess the need for more personnel for the purpose of extraction and trauma treatment. Over the 2002 off season they added another Dr to the full time crew that was an ER Trauma and Triage specialist and in her statements it sounded as tho she was just one of a new group of "specialist".

Kel