Come on Henry, you DO wear a helmet to work - I've seen it! OK, so
it was a "vintage" style aviator with goggles and scarf but it was
still unmistakably you sticking up out oh that Healey - got a good
laugh that day!
Seriously though, I knew the writing was on the wall after last years
tragedies. I'm not a fan of mandates of any sort but look at it this
way - If they were to be mandated across all racing [which I think
will happen eventually] maybe the cost would come down to something a
bit more reasonable.
Regarding the fatal Surjit Hermon accident at Road America, perhaps
you shouldn't be so judgmental - I was in that session and don't
think the VSCDA folks need or deserve the burden of second guessing
their actions. The Mini was so far off the racing surface that a
driver would almost have to take aim to hit it and I think that is
pretty much what happened - Target Fixation! I'll never know if a
HANS would have saved him but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have hurt
him either.
For me, I don't have one yet but it is on the A list.
As for motorcycle helmets, anyone who doesn't wear one is just plain
stupid. The only problem with mandating them is that it allows stupid
people to live longer and takes "natural selection" out of the picture.
Greg "Lunker" Hilyer
TR4 #314
Albuquerque NM
On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:09 AM, <dos_gusanos@msn.com> wrote:
> I don't currently wear a neck restraint in my racecar. I'll buy
> new tires
> before the neck restraint. I don't wear a helmet when I drive to
> work, do
> you? Probably should since most of my big wrecks have been on the
> street. If
> all the safety stuff Fuel cells, health exams, fire systems, etc.
> had been
> required when I started vintage racing, I wouldn't have. When I
> started,
> leather work gloves were all that was required, that's what I
> wore. Adding
> neck restraints puts up one more barrier to entry to someone
> starting out.
>
> Henry Morrison, from the wild wild west, where I still see dual
> purpose cars
> racing without fuel cells or rollbars...........
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