Leo, I remember readin’ about someone knockin’ the fence down in Martinsville in the fifties. Don’t think anyone was killed.
When NASCAR banned the ‘Himmy’, Chrysler got their collective panties inna wad ‘n pulled their factory backed cars. Petty went drag racin’ in what would become Funny Cars. He had an accident ‘n killed a l’il boy.
Bobby Allison went airborne at Talladega back in the ‘80s ‘n rode the catch fence. Several were injured by debris. Now at that track ‘n Daytona they have restrictor plates to keep ‘em under two hundred miles an hour.