DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) a' Fans experiencing harmful after the terrible accident at Daytona International Speedway could change seats for NASCAR's biggest battle. Course President Joie Chitwood said Sunday workers successfully repaired an area of fence a 54 feet wide and 22 feet high a that was shredded Saturday when Kyle Larson's car went flying on the final lap of a second-tier battle and crashed through the screen that divides vehicles from fans. Large bits of debris, including a tire, dispersed in to the upper and lower part of the stands. The crash wounded more than 30 people, raising more questions about fan security at race tracks. Halifax Health spokesman Byron Cogdell said eight people with crash-related injuries stayed hospitalized Sunday in Daytona Beach in stable condition. The six people brought to another Halifax hospital in Port Orange with crash-related injuries had all been dismissed by Sunday morning, Cogdell said. A spokeswoman at Florida Memorial Clinic wouldn't generate information Sunday on the people delivered to that hospital. Chitwood, meanwhile, said if any fans are uncomfortable with their up-close seating for Sunday's Daytona 500, officers would work to go them. The race started as scheduled. "If fans are unhappy with their sitting place or we'd relocate them," Chitwood said Sunday, should they have any incidents. "So we'll address that area like we do every other area of the grandstand. We make every hotel we can.", If a fan isn't comfortable where they are sitting Larry Spencer of Nanticoke, Pa., said Sunday he is not sure he desires to ever sit that low again after his 15-year-old brother, Derrick, required three stitches in his cheek after being hit by material dust flying from the accident. They lay near the barrier Saturday, but returned for the Daytona 500 with seats a large number of lines further away from the course. "I thought it absolutely was just nice to see the cars going by that close," Spencer said. "After yesterday, although, I definitely will reconsider sitting lower actually again." The tire that flew in to the stands arrived a few lines above where they had been standing. Following the accident, looking around at the people seriously hurt, Spencer said he decided to just take his brother to a hospital himself so that speedway teams and paramedics may focus on the people who needed more support. "The only way to describe it was just like a bomb went off, and the vehicle more or less exploded," Spencer said. Course employees completed fixes about 2 a.m. Sunday, having installed a new wall post, new steel meshing and the main concrete wall. Authorities didn't repair the collapsed cross-over gate, that allows fans to travel between the stands and the infield before races. Daytona has a grandstand redesign planned. Chitwood said the incidents might prompt a redesign that will include stronger fences or stands further away from the on-track activity. "It is tough to get in touch both today in what occurred," Chitwood said and terms of a possible redevelopment. "We were prepared recently, had emergency medical answer. As we study from this, you bet: If there are things that we can incorporate into the future, whether it's the home now or any other redevelopment, we will. "The key is seated with NASCAR, learning the things that happened and how exactly we deal with them." Daytona reexamined its fence and wound up replacing the entire point following Carl Edwards' frightening crash at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama in 2009. Edwards' car sailed into the wall and spewed dust into the stands. Improvements have been made by "we since then," Chitwood said. "I think that's the key: that we study on this and determine what else we have to do." NASCAR plans to take what remained of Larson's sheared car along with debris back to its research and development center in Charlotte, N.C., for assessment. "We'll make the best and brightest," said Steve O'Donnell, NASCAR's senior vice president for racing operations. "Anything we can learn will undoubtedly be put in place. ... Fans are our first concern. Certainly we want everybody to be safe at a meeting. We've talked to the speedway. We're confident in what's in place at today's event. Undoubtedly still considering those affected, but we are confident to go ahead with this race." The 12-car accident began as the checkered flag was approached by the front-runners. Head Regan Smith attemptedto stop Brad Keselowski for the gain, causing a pileup that could have now been much worse. Larson's burning engine wedged through a gaping hole in the fence. Parts and pieces of his car sprayed in to the stands, including a tire that cleared the top of the wall and landed midway up the spectator section closest to the track. The 20-year-old Larson stood in shock several feet from his car as fans in the stands waved frantically for help. The area was briefly clouded by smoke from the burning engine, and emergency vehicles descended on the scene. Ambulance sirens might be observed wailing behind the grandstands at a time the competition winner would usually be doing celebratory burnouts. "It was freaky. When I appeared to my right, the incident happened," Rick Harpster of Orange Park said. "I appeared over and I found a tire fly straight over the wall to the stands, but next I didn't see anything else. That was the worst thing I have seen, seeing that tire travel into the stands. I knew it was likely to be severe." In 1987, Bobby Allison's car raised off the track at Talladega while running more than 200 mph, careening into the steel-cable fence and scattering debris into the group. That crash led to the utilization of horsepower-sapping restrictor plates at Talladega and its sister track in Daytona, NASCAR's quickest styles. Consequently, the cars all run not quite the same speed, and the area is normally bunched closely together a' which plenty of owners have warned is actually a more dangerous situation than higher speeds. "That is one of the items that really does discourage you," Allison said Sunday. "But it is always possible because of the speeds, where they are." Dumb Connected Press writer Jennifer Kay in Miami brought for this report.
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