Keselowski discusses racing safety on Twitter

Team Penske driver: ‘All drivers responsibility to take safety seriously’

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Safety has been a hot topic in the opening weeks of the NASCAR national series season with Kyle Busch and Jeff Gordon both involved in wrecks in back-to-back weeks at spots on tracks without a SAFER barrier.

Busch’s wreck in the NASCAR XFINITY Series opener at Daytona International Speedway left him sidelined indefinitely with a compound fracture of the right lower leg and a left mid-foot fracture, while Gordon was just done for the day at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

With all that going on, Brad Keselowski, the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, took to Twitter to offer some of his thoughts on the subject of safety.

Racing safety has it complacency until someone significant dies in our era @nateryan @alo_oficial

— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) March 3, 2015

Safety in racing is a tough subject. Racing is dangerous and always will be. I accept my own risk every week. But that doesn’t mean being ��

— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) March 3, 2015

As a professional in an entertainment sport, it is all drivers responsibility to take safety seriously as our decisions transcend our level.

— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) March 3, 2015

Simple safety measures like the HANS device have saved lives at the lower levels and they are made possible by the works of those at the top

— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) March 3, 2015

So much to say about safety vs risk in racing and too few characters to use.

— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) March 3, 2015

Tracks have been taking extra precaution and making safety enhancements in recent weeks, with Daytona announcing it would ring the entire track with SAFER barrier. Atlanta also made some safety enhancements before last week’s race.

NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O’Donnell said in a video interview with NASCAR.com on Monday (that you can watch here) that there is “no greater priority” for the sanctioning body and its affiliated tracks than the expanded use of impact-absorbing protective barriers.

“I think from our perspective, no different than Daytona,” O’Donnell said. “We said that there’s no greater priority for NASCAR in working with the tracks to have SAFER everywhere. In terms of where it makes sense, obviously there’s some challenges with different gates where you’ve got to look at some other technologies, but for us, the process is in place for short-term plans where we’ve worked with Atlanta and the upcoming West Coast tracks, and longer-term, implementing the SAFER barriers as quickly as we can.”

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