Why to consider safety options on the track!

[Mike Andrews]

Yeah... how much damage can a 16 pound ball do :dude:

[JoeP]

The same thing can happen on the street -- and most people do not wear helmets.

Last Summer, an uncovered contractor's pickup dropped a 2 inch iron pipe in front of me, at 80 mph on the Jersey Turnpike.   It hit my car where the windshield meets the roofline and punched a perfectly round hole into the car, pushing the roof back two inches.  An inch lower, and it would have come into the car.

After that, I feel safer on track.  Fewer pickups and trash haulers.

[Darren]

You can look at the odds, but then again a very similar wreck happend in an F2 race only a week ago when Henry Surtees lost his life.  Watch the bouncing wheel from the first wreck.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2544734/Tragic-crash-footage-revealed-of-moment-the-son-of-John-Surtees-was-killed-in-motor-racing-crash-at-Brands-Hatch.html

[AMoore]

Darren wrote:

A few years back, I believe it was Chip, was driving down the front straight at Summit and a deer (not known for being particularly intelligent) ran into the side of his car at 120+ mph!

That was one fast deer.hock:

[ninjabones]

Can you pass a PA inspection with a lexan front windshield?  I was told by a reliable source that you can't.  I have a small spider crack in my front glass... it's expanding very slowly, but a replacement is inevitable.  Thinking about lexan, but don't want to sacrifice my ability to drive to tech, the shop, or to get gas on occasion when the track pump is closed.

G

[Darren]

Lexan windshield doesn't pass inspection.

Though if you didn't bother getting it inspected and figured there is a 1 in 1000 chance of actually getting a $90 ticket....gamblers math takes over.  Especially if the cost of inspection is $90.

On the track I think Lexan is much safer and this is very annoying since many sanctioning bodies for racing and time trials specifically disallow Lexan.

Lexan is more prone to leaking, not a good thing for all of the electronics directly under the windshield.

[scwaters]

Last RTR event at Lightning someone lost a front spoiler lip, first lap someone ran over it, second lap inside line into turn one (late pass signal) and a piece of the spoiler came spinning up right at the drivers "A" pillar.  Both the instructor and I flipped down our visors.  Drove the rest of the event with visors down, and will in the future.

[bobt993]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 'TOm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Now you know where the rest of your splitter went!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(zip ties are not effective in holding body parts together)

[betegh9]

bobt993 wrote:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 'TOm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now you know where the rest of your splitter went!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(zip ties are not effective in holding body parts together)

2 essential tools every know-it-ALL should have at home and shop: WD-40 to make things move that don't move, and duct tape to hold things in place parts that shouldn't move.:dude::dude:

[George3]

Hey Bob.............. Do you think I could zip tie two cans of WD-40 and have double the protection ??????????????/