[Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety

[Ed Weldon]

Mayf -- 
Go on Landracing.com, Bonneville General Chat, for a good commentary posted
today by Lee Kennedy.
Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drmayf" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
To: "Skip Higginbotham" <saltrat at pahrump.com>
Cc: "lsr list autox" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
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..