[Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety

[Ed Van Scoy]

OK.... You guys know I'm slow..... Just WHERE on Landracing is Lee's comments
on HANS?????
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: John Romero [mailto:delsolid at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2008 09:00 AM
To: drmayf at mayfco.com
Cc: land-speed at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety

I spent more on gas getting to and from events this year than I did on my Hans
3 years ago. On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:41 AM, drmayf wrote: > 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" >>To: "Skip Higginbotham" >>Cc: "lsr list
autox" >>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..