Professional Racing Emergency Safety Services Inc.

     Should community speedways allow older drivers, or those with histories of medical problems, to compete in open races?
Wrecks due to heart failure seem to be a common occurrence at race tracks across the country. The debate on the safety-oriented nature of local speedways seem to be of little concern to officials.

     However there are a few speedways that have made a decision to take track safety into their own hands. There are some speedways that have turned down drivers that have shown up ill, inebriated or unfit to race. Many racers have argued this decision to reject unfit drivers to promote a higher level of track safety on their speedway and turn to other tracks to race on.

     PRESS-Professional Racing Emergency Safety Services Inc. is a company dedicated to the safety of drivers and spectators alike. PRESS agrees that MOTORSPORTS are widely viewed as a high-risk endeavor, however, there is no reason to add any fuel to the fire. The age limitation is not much of a concern for PRESS on the tracks that they oversee, but the overall wellness of each driver is important.

     Many of the professional racing series require that all of its drivers to undergo an annual physical, in which a driver's major organs such as hear,lungs, and eyes among others, are tested to ensure their safety on the race track.
Now, sending drivers through a physical each season may seam un logical due to the expense of such a procedure. Some drivers and owners believe that if this would become a track requirement that the number of participants would be greatly reduced.

     So lets take a step back and ask a few questions.

     1) Are the speedways that are preventing unfit or ill drivers wrong for doing so?

     2) Should the race track officials delve into the never ending changing pit of heal records and change the overall liability process of their course in order to promote track safety?

     3) Should local speedways permit drivers with histories of medical problems to compete?

     4) Why, at what is considered a "high-risk" , sport is there not health standards at this level of competition?