Hinton began investigating NASCAR’s safety record last July after the deaths of drivers Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin. By the time the series ran in February, another driver, Tony Roper, had died in a ...

Many of them were well on their way home when NASCAR president Mike ... Hampshire International Speedway and Tony Roper was killed later in the year in a crash during a truck race at Texas Motor ...

was involved in a last-lap crash with Ken Schrader, which took his life. Earnhardt’s death was the fourth in less than a year across NASCAR’s national series. In 2000, Tony Roper, Adam Petty ...