The racers here are more qualified to point out some of the scary stuff here:
1. Driver has no arm restraints
2. Single hoop paper clip roll bar totally inadequate protection
3. Passenger seat belts not fastened allowing the buckles to turn into
projectiles
4. Flimsy shoulder harness mount bar to roll bar
5. Helmet probably too large
6. No HANS device
6. Corner worker removes helmet before EMTs ensure he's stabilized w/o
cervical damage
This driver is one lucky guy and the vid points out that track days are every
bit as dangerous as "real" racing and require appropriate safety measures.
Rick
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--- On Mon, 1/23/12, Greg Higgins <g.h.higgins@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Greg Higgins <g.h.higgins@gmail.com>
Subject: [Spridgets] Cobra supercar driver Peter Tryce survives 130mph crash
at Willow Springs racetrack | Mail Online
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Monday, January 23, 2012, 12:54 PM
Here's what it looks like when a guy rolls his Cobra at 130 miles an hour,
and
he walked away. I think a couple of list members have survived the same kind
of track crash.
Greg Higgins
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089839/Cobra-supercar-driver-Peter-T
ryce-survives-130mph-crash-Willow-Springs-racetrack.html
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