At the Cook Shootout the course is set up paralleling the dike - the old International course. For safety an emergency catch net is set up on the side of the course away from the dike - right turn, not left, from the course. If a racer is on the way into the pits/southbound and is "hot" - chute failure or brakes or whatever -- he's to turn to the net. Even if he goes through the net there's quite a bit of real estate for him to explore/use to slow down (it's really soft out there). Straight ahead down the course would have said racer hit the berm and then "fly" towards I-80. Ask Tom Burkland about the time, just a few years ago, when he lost the chutes heading in and had to stop before the highway. I think that was before the net.