Jeff Gordon Meeting With NASCAR To Discuss Track Safety

Driver Jeff Gordon throughout the week will meet with NASCAR officials to "discuss safety initiatives," starting today with Exec VP & Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O'Donnell. Gordon said that he would "like a timetable on additional soft walls being added to tracks." He said, "The one thing I would question was when did SAFER barriers start being put at racetracks, and what was the plan for them to be complete, and where are we in that plan?" (AP, 3/6)

Meanwhile, drivers "apparently won't know until after" Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series CampingWorld.com 500 if the tires stacked inside Phoenix Int'l Raceway's Turn 4 "will be replaced with a permanent SAFER barrier" (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 3/10).