Web1989 #21 NEIL BONNETT SERIES 1 - PLASTIC TIRE - NARROW STRIPE #989. He said he did it because he worried that the bill signed into law Thursday would close access to the photos. . Many drivers acknowledged they were experimenting with light springs at Daytona because NASCAR this year required changes in car body designs with the intention of increasing wind resistance and slowing speeds. flipped wildly on the backstretch near the end of the race in 1997 In tests commissioned by the Sentinel, Standards Testing Laboratories of Massillon, Ohio, found that Orrs tires met all construction, design and compound standards. Susan Bonnett was en route to Daytona Beach from the couple's home in Bessemer when the wreck occurred. It declined to answer any questions pertaining to the deaths of Bonnett and Orr or to explain its procedures for investigating fatal racing accidents. Its not going to catapult him into the wall.. Myers stopped short of saying that better head-and-neck protection would have saved Earnhardt. Bonnett was a member of the Alabama Gang, and started his career with the help of Bobby and Donnie Allison. ''The entire Nascar community will miss Adam Petty.''. After holding the cars for no more than half a day, NASCAR returned them to the teams. Following Bonnetts death, NASCAR said it was his driving that caused the crash, but The Sentinel later found that NASCAR retracted those findings after objections from Bonnetts family and his friend, Dale Earnhardt. Earnhardt, a seven-time Winston Cup champion, crashed on the final turn of the Daytona 500 on Feb. 18 and could not be revived. My conclusion was that the patient definitely died of a whip injury and that the breaking seat belt did not significantly contribute to the patients death, Villanueva said. About three weeks after the accident, magazine photographers released photographs of Bonnett's autopsy, as well as those of another driver who died a few days later, Rodney Orr, to the public, which led to a lawsuit.[5].
