safety speech

[AjG]

I just wanted to pass on my experience from last weekend. It was a bit of a wake-up call for me.
I try to run a safe car: Good cage, Hans, Fire system…etc. My safety stuff is worth more than my car, but I never really thought about a right side net.
I was qualifying at Beaver Run and turning some pretty good laps (less than a second off the record thank you very much). The car felt great and I was definitely pushing it. I lost it in turn 3 and went into the Armco hard. Destroyed two wheels, bent the rack, and probably the rear axle housing and put a nice Armco crease the entire length of the car. It didn’t really look like much but the problem was that I hit flat broadside on the right. There was nothing to absorb any of the hit, no crush at all.
My neck is pretty sore but it could have been much worse. Anyway, the moral of the story is: GET A RIGHT SIDE NET. They are cheap and if I can get going fast enough in an ITB car (in 3rd gear) to hurt myself, then it can happen to anyone.
Ok, speech over.

[NORRIS]

AJ.

Glad to hear you're OK. Sorry about the car.

1 question: What kind of seat do you have? Is it one with a head support?

[ddewhurst]

Glad your ok.

***Anyway, the moral of the story is: GET A RIGHT SIDE NET.***

There are other options:

Both the Issac & the Defnder reduce the lateral load which the HANS does not.

Please note that ALL santioning bodys that mandiate a HANS also mandate some sort of devise to reduce lateral loads, again the reason they mandate a lateral load reducer is because the HANS does not sufficiently by it's self reduce lateral loads.

My 2 cents............

[lateapex911]

X2 ^

[spnkzss]

X2 ^

X3

Yet I do where an ISAAC AND have a right side net as of this year.

[raffaelli]

X3

Yet I do where an ISAAC AND have a right side net as of this year.

x4.


Glad your OK. Did the cage do well?

[CRallo]

Stretched my neck a bit in a (mostly) sideways hit at NHMS at the triple event a lil while ago...

+1!

[RedMisted]

Aaron,

I saw your car get towed in but didn't know what it was all about. I thought maybe your car suffered an engine or driveline problem. I'm glad you're okay and am sorry about the car.

Thanks for sharing your message. As a stubborn type who still wears an open-face helmet, I better take heed and upgrade my safety situation with a full-face model, HANS, and RIGHT SIDE NET.

[924Guy]

Sorry, boys... a RHS net alone WILL do more than an ISAAC alone in this case. BTDT.

Of course, the best solution is both; Sam Moore t-boned me hard on the RHS at last year's ARRC 9not his fault, I was spinning cross-track) while I was wearing my ISAAC and have the Safety Solutions RHS net. I was fine, and finished the remaining 16-odd laps and ended on the podium. The car had to go to the frame rack afterwards.

Still, that was better than the time shortly after I got my ISAAC and I smacked the wall hard on the right, no RHS net. Bounced hard off the petty bar with my cranium, not fun. Cut that bar out and installed the center net right after. Well, once the car was fixed, that is.

No, I don't have a containment seat. No decent options in my budget, and the nets are more reliable/robust IMO.