A few months ago, I posted my opinion on Race Seat Safety at this forum. It opened up dialogue amongst many people which was exactly what I had hoped for. We at RealRide Racing are strong proponents for mandating stricter race seat requirements amongst racing and driving organizations. Our feeling is that the current seat requirements are insufficient, even within some professional racing organizations.
Our team's engineer spent the past few months researching race seat safety and we have since replaced all the seats in our race cars with Racetech seats. Our decision to go with these seats was partly based on their extensive crash test data. At my last posting, we weren't able to release the footage, nor were we able to discuss what we saw. As the official race seat of every Dodge Viper Competition Coupe, the crash test footage is property of the Daimler Chrysler corporation.
However, Racetech has now released some of the footage for us to show and we feel that it is important that every racer review this for their own knowledge and understanding of what can truly happen in a crash. While a head and neck device can protect you in a head-on or rear impact, a proper race seat is designed to protect you in a side or angular impact. Please don't take just take our word. Watch this video clip and make your own decisions. The clip is available by clicking on: http://images.realride.com/cgi-bin/imageFo...wmv&img=&tt=avi
Or click on the Racetech seat link at the RealRide Gallery. We welcome any thoughts or questions at the RealRide Forum.

Regards,
David
REALRIDE.COM RACING
http://www.RealRide.com