Glen, That is a very good letter. I sure hope it does not get lost in
the other e-mails on this subject. After John got killed last year I
took the seat out of the Corvette and got a full NASCAR seat for it. If
we don't learn from these accidents then they are even a bigger
tragedy. Doug
Glen Barrett wrote:
> This is a good conversation and deserves a lot of thought. Each car
> and driver is different in how they sit in the car. Size of the
> driver, size of the exit part of the cage etc, must be part of the
> over all plan. A sloppy or wide cage allows to much side to side
> movement. You don't want the helmet up against the top of the roll
> cage because of belt stretch and neck stretch.
>
> The Hans device has quick release snaps and can give the driver some
> flexibility to exit the car. As far as I know there are three
> different Hans designs for how the driver sits in the cage.
>
> The best thing is to talk to the people who make them as they are the
> experts. Our type of racing is a lot different as we don't have spec
> cars. We build the cars to the rules and leave much of the design up
> to the builder.
>
> Over the years I have been on the emergency crew and in most cases we
> have to cut the cages off to extract the driver. Most drivers have
> been knocked out and the EMT's want to stabilize the driver, add a
> back board and a C-collar prior to moving the driver.
>
> Give it a lot of thought gentlemen
>
> Glen
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