Single door bars are legal in IT. To encourage drivers to use 'NASCAR
style' door bars that leave more crush room before hitting the driver,
they've recently ('96 I think) allowed IT cars to remove the door panel
& window (driver's side only) if your door bar(s) require it. I guess
it's easier to convince a driver to make a safety improvement if he's
getting a performance improvement in trade. IT rules also don't require
a fuel cell, but if you have one, certain cars are allowed to place the
fuel cell in a location that improves weight distribution. If you keep
the stock tank, it has to be in the stock location.
Disclaimer -- I know nothing of this incident other than what I've read
here. I don't know anything about Mr. Israel's roll cage. I agree that
we should do what we can to learn from these things. Another question
is whether his cage had the (required for IT in '97) full width cross
bar on the main hoop.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Evans [SMTP:brian@uunet.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 1997 11:06 AM
> To: VEENET@aol.com
> Cc: vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: SCCA vintage race
>
> This has indeed been a challenging year for our sport. A competitor
> was
> killed in France this weekend also, I've heard.
>
> I'm not familiar with the ITC roll cage rules - would there have been
> dual
> door bars to protect against this sort of impact intruding into the
> drivers
> compartment? I'm thinking that I want to learn from these tragedies,
> to
> help prevent more in the future, so understanding the causes helps.
>
> Brian.
>
> A..Around 2pm on Sunday during one of the SCCA
> > championship races a sports racer and a ITC Datsun got together in
> the esses
> >and the driver of the Datsun, Derek Israel, was killed. The
> explaination I
> >got was that the drivers door of the Datsun impacted the rear of the
> sports
> >racer which was up on it's side and nosed into the hill..
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