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And now, in the wake of Ryan Newman's frightening and fiery crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500 on Monday night, there will undoubtedly be more safety improvements coming in the future as NASCAR dissects what happened as Newman's car was blasted by Corey LaJoie's as it spun upside down on the track. It's fair to believe that Newman's injuries aren't believed to be life-threatening by doctors largely because of NASCAR's safety advancements of the past 20 years. The Car of Tomorrow introduced in 2007 provided a sturdier chassis for cars to survive crashes and pushed drivers four inches closer to the middle of the car than from the driver's side door.

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