[Fot] SVRA to require head and neck restraints

[dos_gusanos at msn.com]

With all due respect, I like to keep things in prespective.  I do value my
life but see many organizations bend the safety rules to increase car count
when the entries start to thin out.  The guy who was killed at Road America
had his cause of death as  "blunt trauma to head and chest" or something like
that according to Vintage racecar Magazine.  I don't see where the neck
restraint would have helped him out as much as stopping the race to remove the
disabled car that he hit would have.  Mandatory neck restraints have been
tried with other organizations and most I know of have backed off the policy
once they tried to enforce it.  Good Luck.

From: JWoesvra at aol.comDate: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:27:47 -0500Subject: Re: [Fot]
SVRA to require head and neck restraintsTo: dos_gusanos at msn.com;
billb at bnj.com; BillDentin at aol.comCC: fot at autox.team.net; Jensen87 at aol.com

Henry,

With all respect due you, I'm sorry that your life is so worthless. Since you
have not raced with SVRA, it really doesn't matter whether you agree with our
policies anyway.

There were 3 known fatalities in vintage racing last year that might have been
sore necks if we had done this a year ago. You don't have to race with us to
understand that we are being proactive in this case. We are willing to take a
hit on entries to insure the folks that do race with us are protected, when
technology is available to do so.


Jack WoehrleSVRA Technical Directorjwoesvra at aol.com803-463-5388FAX
803-794-8747701 Center StreetWest Columbia, SC 29169


In a message dated 1/15/2009 9:11:35 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
dos_gusanos at msn.com writes:
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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