Originally Posted by
Fat Boy
To fix this situation, you'd have to produce a cylindrical foam barrier that was banded/wrapped around the pole. It wouldn't be a terrible thing to come up with. These things can disperse a lot of energy. I'm not sure what the cost would be, but I doubt if it would be insane. If you could just put them up and leave them, then there might be something good come out of this.
There could be a business opportunity here. If you could come up with an inexpensive, effective product, that could be shipped, you could rent the barriers out to races around a region, or sell them to a promoter of multiple races.
Problem would be the small market not leading to economies of scale.