 Why substantial door bars / side cages, are necessary |
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| Randal |
 Mar 21 2010, 10:24 AM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 4,446 Joined: 29-May 03 From: Los Altos, CA Member No.: 750  |
Bad NASCAR accident.
That accident could happen on any track. Great reason for having NASCAR type side cages if you're doing wheel to wheel. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/l...o_n_507206.html |
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| URY914 |
Mar 21 2010, 12:28 PM
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I built the lightest 914 in the history of mankind. Group: Members Posts: 120,426 Joined: 3-February 03 From: Jacksonville, FL Member No.: 222 Region Association: None |
and it wasn't even in a real race.
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| byndbad914 |
Mar 30 2010, 04:37 PM
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shoehorn and some butter - it fits Group: Members Posts: 1,547 Joined: 23-January 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 5,463 Region Association: None |
yeah, I was talking to my mom on the phone and watching that on Speed at the same time and saw that crash - it was brutal.
Technically tho' I would say it was a real race, just cuz it was "old timers" doesn't make it not a real race, those guys were really running the cars in a W2W format. You are 100% right tho' Randal and why I have so much door bar in my car! Our 914s are so damn narrow to begin with I put bars out to the doors with angled reinforcement down to the floor AND move the seats inboard 2" so the shoulder supports are damn near touching each other. I hit 160mph in the front stretch at Willow Springs and 140+ at the track here in CO which is what drove me to a tube chassis car to begin with, but that just goes to show you can be doing zero and get T-boned by a car going much MUCH less than 140mph and end up in rough shape, even WITH tons of safety stuff in place. I was damn glad to hear that they were both OK (broken bones heal up so I consider it OK in terms of how violent the accident was) - if that was a typical track teener I see at race events with a single, angled door bar at best that would have been really bad for the driver. |
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| SirAndy |
Mar 30 2010, 04:44 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,623 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(Randal @ Mar 21 2010, 09:24 AM)  Great reason for having NASCAR type side cages if you're doing wheel to wheel. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) |
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