[Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety

[drmayf]

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..


Skip Higginbotham wrote:

>I hear you but if you can't get out of the car with a HANS Device 
>on.........then what? 5 seconds is too much??
>Skip
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>At 06:58 PM 9/5/2008, Keith Turk wrote:
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>>Skip that 2 more points your attached to the car.... so now in a 
>>streamliner you not only have to undo the belt but the lower belt 
>>and now you have 2 more strings on your head to get?
>>
>>Simply to much...
>>
>>the Hans works... and it's fairly easy to deal with...  I've never 
>>had an issue and my car's fairly confining as well...  John's case 
>>is John's case.... and yours is yours... do what works just don't 
>>trust to things not going wrong... cause you and I both know they 
>>will eventually...
>>
>>K
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