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Plenty of questions in these days after the Car of Tomorrow's debut season

By Bill Borden
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Years ago, Junior Johnson was asked what he thought it took to be a great race car driver. His answer was short and representative of that era of NASCAR. "Be ready to die," he said. It was an accepted risk for drivers back then. But we have become more cautious and concerned about the health of our racing heroes today. There has been a continuing -- though erratic -- crusade to make the sport safer for the competitors since its rough-and-tumble days when safety was secondary to everything els ...

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