Incidents like this is why most of these "street cars" have no business being on the road course going the speeds they're going. The late model cars you have a fighting chance of being ok... the vintage cars... not so much. I guess we'll just wait until we injure someone severely or worse before we require roll cages, fire systems, and other proper safety equipment.
Yeppers. At the end of the day, each individual needs to be responsible for his/her safety with the parts they do or don't put on their own car (and may ultimately be held accountable if something does go bad).
Actions speak louder than words. And louder than minimum requirements.
And this isn't just about the USCA. Go out to any open track day / HPDE deal and you will see all kinds of "under-safetied" cars and questionable setups... improperly installed cages, belts, etc etc etc. Why is why it is all up to the individuals. No one can force you to take care of yourself and be safe.
Just click the green youtube video icon in the row above this box when you go to post, and then take the sequence of letters/numbers/symbos that are only AFTER the = sign in the URL of the youtube video (in your case, it's "g40YatgE_CE") and insert that in between the youtube brackets in the post. Like this below.
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I agree 110%..
You'd be amazed at the arguments i hear for not wearing a head and neck restraint I believe it should be mandatory just like helmets and seat belts/harneses
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Accelerating is optional...........stopping is mandatory. Your car WILL stop one way or another.
Not to go too far off topic here, but in the "dirt biking" relm, i've seen a ton of injuries (head and body) by guys "just tooling around the camp" or "just gonna go for a "test" run". Seems thats when things do go wrong.
I read an insurance stat one time that said 95% of all auto accident occur within a mile or so from the home, probably true since statistically thats where your at most the time....
Point being, theres a 1 in 1 chance/probability your gonna die. You just dont know when. Ya ain't immortal (even for those of us that do believe in an afterlife). AND yes, i'd like to WALK (not wheel) my daughter down the aisle some day, and even see grand kids....
I've always been a "safety first" guy, I built my car with this intent, Its my lack of experience in this genre that while my intentions where righteous, I'll fell short of a "proper cage", "no cell", minimal fire equipement. Thats called experience or maturity......
Didnt even open the link to see what happened. As a matter of fact I refuse to look at any sort of wreck anybody ever posts. This **** can happen to anybody and I refuse to give it any energy.
well the last crash was on the track....and I put this one up because it was on the speed stop challenge ....just to show how fast it can go wrong, for no reason...Ken had just shifted to third and swung the car wide (left) to go into a right hander and dropped a tire off the track and it was done after that....the car picked up speed in the grass runoff..sailed across another (closed off) section of track hit a small rumble strip that popped the car about a foot in the air and into a barrier wall...that was at about 75-80 miles an hour ....just freeway speed......so next time someone says "I'm not going to track the car" I don't need all that safety stuff....remember thats why cars today have air bags, crumple zones, collapsible steering columns, impact absorbing crash bumpers, traction control and ABS, and WERE NOT TRACKING THOSE EITHER, thats just your daily driver
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I believe it should be mandatory just like helmets and seat belts/harneses
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