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6/29/20, 3:21 PM   #1
Roll bar padding
chillyrn
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Most of you probably didn’t tune into the Jackson Nationals WoO show on Sat to watch the Wisconsin WingLESS series. There was a crash as they completed lap 1 of the feature and one of the drivers (Shawn Swim) took a hard ride, got a precautionary trip to the hospital. He was ultimately ok, but I saw pics on Facebook of his helmet, which was white... had orange streaks on it from smacking his orange roll cage during the crash. My observation was, geez, this guy was lucky.... and why didn’t he have roll bar padding?! I then recalled that it seems like quite a few traditional sprint car drivers used to have roll bar padding... but not so much anymore. Why is that? With full containment seats and HANS, the cars are definitely safer than they used to be. It seems like it sure wouldn’t hurt to have roll bar padding in case you get in a violent flip that stretches belts, etc. Am I crazy??
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