In the early days of NASCAR drivers wore nothing but a T-shirt and jeans to compete in a sport with many incidents including that could occur. With the incidents of Fireball Roberts and the deaths of Eddie sachs and Dave Macdonald at Indianapolis that May started the revolution of the uniforms that would better protect us drivers if a fire was to occur. Dupont in the early 60’s created a material called Nomex and by 1966 drivers such as Walt Hansgen and Bob Tullius were testing the experimental uniforms. Many drivers nowadays use and wear Nomex uniforms and clothing such as underwear, gloves and the most common thing racers wear and are mandatory are fire suits. Some drivers may wait until fire crew get there, but most of them get out of the
