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Post by kiwicanfly on Mar 11, 2018 9:13:20 GMT
This video from a fellow competitor in a hillclimb I was in last week shows perfectly why it it a good idea to have a roll cage on an open car such as a Rocket. The same corner caught out three drivers. I reckon it would be fair to say that if I had gone through the same fence without a cage I would not be sitting here typing today.
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Post by familyguy on Mar 11, 2018 16:22:47 GMT
I'd be more concerned about the risk of decapitation when hitting a wire fence!.... best not to over think these things though, it would only serve to slow you down 😁
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Post by kiwicanfly on Mar 11, 2018 19:08:03 GMT
I'd be more concerned about the risk of decapitation when hitting a wire fence! ? That was exactly my point.
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Post by familyguy on Mar 11, 2018 22:24:05 GMT
Ahh of course, I should have realised when the car didn' actually roll. I read "roll cage" and my brain interpreted it as "roll bar".
After making myself look a bit daft I do in fact have the perfect solution...... Keep a set of wire cutters beside you and make sure your reaction times are s#*t hot.
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Post by Stiggy on Mar 11, 2018 23:16:30 GMT
Racing where there are no lamp posts, wire fences, trees and members of the public as obstacles is a favorable alternative. Racing with run off areas, piles of tyres bolted together in the distance without banks, slopes or kerbs is the way to go. Safety is often more about the driver and track than the car.
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Post by kiwicanfly on Mar 12, 2018 7:16:06 GMT
Keep a set of wire cutters beside you and make sure your reaction times are s#*t hot. An alternative to a full cage, some use, are wires running from the front of the cockpit to the roll bar, these are supposed to lift the wires above the driver. Ironically when I first looking at adding either a bar or a cage our scrutineer described the scenario in the video with the comment that he was not prepared to pick my head up should it happen to me!
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Post by kiwicanfly on Mar 12, 2018 7:33:48 GMT
Racing where there are no lamp posts, wire fences, trees and members of the public as obstacles is a favorable alternative. Racing with run off areas, piles of tyres bolted together in the distance without banks, slopes or kerbs is the way to go. Safety is often more about the driver and track than the car. Fair point but there are no tracks of that nature close to home. However I actually prefer those types of roads to race on over the tracks I've been on. I also prefer, what amounts to, only a few minutes of timed racing to the extended sessions at a track days where timing is forbidden, I like to know that I finished less than a second behind "Neale" or feel the pain of seeing "Steve" being told he lost first place by 0.06 of a second. Dropping my cage on takes me 15 minutes without help and then I'm ready to go, it doesn't make me a safer driver or a road/track any safer but when sh$t happens it's good to know I've given myself the best chance to be able to walk away.
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