[Fot] SVRA to require head and neck restraints

[toodamnfunky at comcast.net]

I got a HANS a week after Uncle Jack passed. I had planned on it all along but that did it for me.
Outright death is not always the result of an overextended neck. Losing the use of my arms and legs
is far worse for me. Just a chair for a quardraplegic is over ten times the cost of the HANS.
I believe vintage racing as a whole are the last to mandate head restraints.
NASA made them mandatory last year. It was an easy choice for me.
Jim G.
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From: <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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