Well, looks to me like something will be required. The rules commitee
are skating around the issue and due to the nature of the event, they
generally come down on the side of safety. I think air bags would work
better. And why not?, We do not see HANS devices mandated by the
government on street cars because that would be costly. So we have
mandated frontal air bags. Actually, wha t I think is that I would
like the rules folks to stop taking care of me because they are going to
price me right out of racing. Whether by eventually retiring my dinky
car because it will cost too much to keep it in spec or by forcing me to
purchase so much personal safety equipment that I cannot afford that
either. I suspect many of us are in that situation.
mayf
Ed Weldon wrote:
>Mayf --
>Go on Landracing.com, Bonneville General Chat, for a good commentary posted
>today by Lee Kennedy.
>Ed
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
>To: "Skip Higginbotham" <saltrat@pahrump.com>
>Cc: "lsr list autox" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 9:53 PM
>Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety
>
>
>
>
>>I've seen a lot of chit chat about the use of a Hans device or similar.
>>Has that been mandated by the rules committee? we just recently had to
>>install lateral head restraints which I like just fine, but I am not one
>>hundred percent sure I want to have to undo anything else in order to
>>get out of a car. I know that the cross axis of inertia if it is not
>>right will certainly take a car in a roll and start it into the endo
>>game which is what the hans would protect from. So maybe instead of hans
>>we need more design on the cars to keep them from going in that direction?
>>But only if it is mandated.
>>has that been done? And why? What has changed recently that woudl drive
>>that decision?
>>mayf, trundling off to bed with a loak of percoset for the implants...
>>how am I even typing, lol..
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