LONG POND -- The horrific crash at NASCAR's race in Daytona Sunday night sent the car driven by Austin Dillon flying into the protective fence then tumbling across the track.
Amazingly, Dillon walked away unharmed.
In less than a month, NASCAR will be back at Pocono Raceway.
While the Tricky Triangle is clear of traffic, in less than a month it will be crowded with screaming NASCAR drivers, racing hundreds of miles per hour at Pocono Raceway.
Car crashes are a frequently occurring occupational hazard in the racing industry.
But the crash at the NASCAR race in Daytona Sunday night had NASCAR fans stunned after driver Austin Dillon went flying into the protective fence then tumbling down the track.
“The first thing is whether he's alright or not you know,” said Harry Shafer from Pocono Lake.
At Murphy's Loft near the track in Long Pond, NASCAR fans are still talking about the fact that Dillon was able to walk away from the crash.
“I was watching it live and you could actually hear an explosion and you couldn't really see the car all you saw was smoke and then things started to develop,” said Harold Snyder from White Haven.
“I was pretty surprised, seeing how amazing that was, the car flying through the air like that, it's pretty amazing,” said Rudy Fluchs from Pocono Lake.
Brandon Igdalsky, president of Pocono Raceway, says the Tricky Triangle is lined with that same fencing, called catchfence.
“This is our newest one we put up recently and its main job is to keep the car on this track and not to get through,” said Igdalsky.
Another safety feature at Pocono is a type wall called SAFER barrier, which stands for Steel And Foam Energy Reduction.
“So in the old days you would either hit a concrete wall which kind of hurts, now we have the safer barrier which is Styrofoam and steel so it just absorbs a lot of the impact so that the driver and the car doesn't have to.”
Ironically, Dillon was driving the Number 3 car, the same as Dale Earnhart, Sr. who was killed in a wreck at Daytona in 2001.
“Dale Earnhart's passing kind of emphasises the need for more safety and there was a lot of inventions made after that,” said Igdalsky.
NASCAR returns to Pocono Raceway on August 2 for the Pennsylvania 400.