Crash in Pueblo Kills NASCAR Mexico Driver Carlos Pardo

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This isn’t something anybody likes to report, but during the 97th lap of Sunday’s race at the Autodromo Miguel E. Abed in Pueblo, Mexico, driver Carlos Pardo died from injuries sustained during a vicious crash. After being bumped by another driver, he lost control, ran head-on into an infield barricade, and died 45 minutes later. He was running in front with three laps to go. I didn’t even know about NASCAR Mexico, and while I’m not sure if the series shares safety specs with its American cousin, there are plenty of infields in the States protected by concrete barriers—and not the impact-absorbing SAFER barriers employed at the outside—so it’s not like this couldn’t happen here. Godspeed, Mr. Pardo.

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Posted at 12:34 pm in Autodromo Miguel E. Abed, Carlos Pardo crash, John Coyle, NASCAR mexico

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Jun 18, 2009 at 4:22 pm

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IGGY12003
Jun 17, 2009 at 10:33 am

ride in peace brotha! horrible crash i heard that this wasnt the first death on this track because of the way they built this track

pttransamdriver
Jun 17, 2009 at 7:17 am

ouch thats sad. what are barriers doing there are they asking for a bodycount?

sarahsmile90
Jun 16, 2009 at 7:13 pm

Sad story…RIP Carlos Pardo…

palefacetsw
Jun 16, 2009 at 6:40 pm

RIP Carlos……now you can race all you want upstairs….and you win every race….godspeed dude…

fireball22
Jun 16, 2009 at 6:20 pm

Any death is racing is one too many.