Greg Hodnett

[MI Dirt Fan]

RIP. Been a bad year for the Outlaw sprints. What track were they at? High speed track?

Wasn't a WoO event.

[MI Dirt Fan]

He won night 1 of the Knoxville Nationals last month.

[AllenK]

RIP. Thoughts and prayers to Greg's family and friends. I so hate to hear of this happening again!! I first remember watching Greg in the SLick 50 series at Manzanita,and even got to see him race a time or two before he went North. Just awful.

[buster83]

Seen Greg in two other bad crashes was very happy to see him get out of them R.I.P. Greg.

[BadlandsBandit12]

This stuff makes me sick to my stomach, how many more deaths do we need to see in sprint car racing??? I have always thought sprint cars are the most dangerous kind of racing. I am not sure how they can get them safer. All i can say is these sprint car guys should seriously move on to another race car with full bodies. RIP Greg

[kazual]

Class guy, RIP Greg

[MI Dirt Fan]

I hate to speculate but I've read a few reports that he hit an opening in the wall and one report said something may had broke in the steering before hand.

[Illtsate32]

Seen Gordy Gundaker make a comment about safety, and not talking about the race cars, so im assuming something at the track wasnt up to par...

[chupp n bloomer fan]

Greg was always one of my favorite racers, period. He had an engineering degree from the University of Tennessee, was from the Memphis area.

First really starting watching him when he was in the Apple Chevrolet car. Cannot remember what car he was in before that. He was at the Sharon Nationals and they told him he was close last year or on night one of two and he said, “close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.”

RIP man, when I watched sprints, you were one of the ones I really liked, hopefully you see your old man up there too.

[golddirt]

MI DIRT FAN, I have read the same thing, these openings at these tracks really need to be addressed asap as I saw boom Briggs car cut in half at the exit at farmer city a few years back. I'm glad I wasn't there there last night for it sounded like gregs wreck was horrible from the reports I have read.

[waaac77]

This stuff makes me sick to my stomach, how many more deaths do we need to see in sprint car racing??? I have always thought sprint cars are the most dangerous kind of racing. I am not sure how they can get them safer. All i can say is these sprint car guys should seriously move on to another race car with full bodies. RIP Greg

Makes me sick too. We don’t need to see anymore but it will happen again. Been happening since it started. These guys are thrill seekers. They love the rush and can’t believe they get to do it for a living so they’re living their dreams. Can’t take that away from Greg, Jason and so many others. Whatever we can learn from this incident could help prevent future incidents but all we can do is continue to try make it safer. It will never be 100% safe and in fact nothing in life is 100% safe. Sometimes there’s just nothing you can do. RIP Greg.

[Bob Hubbard]

Every time I see this happens....... I remember the Gus hoffman team & the two great drivers they lost ..... I cant imagine how bad the car owners - crew must feel .... Its sad yet another open wheel driver & team has to endure this ....

[jr29]

Just terrible news.
Greg was one of the first drivers I liked in sprint car racing because he was a Tennessee guy, plus he seemed like the nicest guy in the pits. In recent years he has been THE reason I've followed Pennsylvania sprint cars. I always had hopes he'd move back down here in a few years and race regionally.

[TS FAN]

Certainly the downside of the sport, but it was even worse 40/50 years ago. They have made the cars safer, but that will never stop the danger including hitting bad angles or weak areas for race tracks.. Sad to hear about Greg and prayers for his family

[chathamracefan]

The Farmer City opening has been hit a few times. I am always kind of leery of the runoffs in turn 1 at places like Jacksonville & Lincoln. At least there isn't a blunt wall, but the layout can (& has) created a launching pad. Anyone who saw Chad Boat's bad ride in the midget at Lincoln last summer knows what I am talking about. Maybe those turn 1 runoffs could be closed off & everybody exit off 4 (similar to Macon where everyone exits off of 2).