[Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety

[John Romero]

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 <drmayf at mayfco.com> 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" <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..
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