Not mandatory????

Jerry

Charles, there's actually a local guy running a "one off" gf1 copy frame with the nhra style drivers enclose running down here in Florida. I'll see if I can find a picture for you

Edit, found some pics

Pretty cool. Im not a manditory guy either. I just think there is some kind of way to incorporate a NHRA type cage into the cars building. You've seen em, Even tractor pullers use em. Several large hoops over the drivers head area.
Something like this but even a little taller https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;...s.avg._.0616tb

Some of this sounds like when the sport went from single hoop roll bars to full cage. In my opinion some sort of full containment cage is needed and maybe more open sides for getting in an out of the car. BC's accident isn't the first time a car took a direct impact to the top of the cage. And most of those types of hits wound up with driver injuries.

We learn every time. And every safety improvement has saved countless lives. Mandatory anything, I think I'd leave to drivers. If you made even one major modification mandatory for 17 you'd be starting the year with less than half the cars racing now.

You know the story, You do it knowing the risk and that up to the ultimate price. This is not to say however some changes or improvements can't be made.

I remember Tony Beaber racing in the late 90s early 2000s with hoops over the cockpit. That car raced until about four years ago at eldora. It was one of the most overbuilt sprinters I ever seen and we used to joke the reason Him and Link ran so well at the always slick in the 90s early 00s Burg was because they weighed 400pds more than the rest of the cars.

Charlie Fisher built and drove a car with a similar cage back in the 90's

Thinking about it, Your exactly right, His was from back of the cage and had several hoops over the drivers head.

Please read this part of the post from xoxide again.

Flashing yellow inside the cars that are triggered when the caution comes out cost is about 200.00. We had them in the new generation silver crown cars Also tracks that are considered to be high speed in car radios so u can be told stay high or low and so u will know where a car is stopped on the track Just some things we already use

Fish, No need to quote my own words, point out where I was speculating about anything.....

All I did was show Charles that it has been done already


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