Ron Earp
Admin
Be careful throwing out the baby with the bath water.
I strongly feel that if you are going to be wheel to wheel racing a properly designed, installed, and used cage will result in your car being far safer than one without a cage. Used is the key word here:
*Used with a helmet
*Used with a halo seat to prevent your head from hitting the cage in a side impact
*Used with proper harness and restraint so your body doesn't come in contact with the cage
*Used with H&N restraint
*Used with padding on the cage anywhere you could possibly come in contact with it
Using a cage on the street with none of this in place is a bad idea. Heck, I was qualifying this past Saturday morning and, due to the track transition from the infield to the banking and not realizing what was getting ready to happen, hit my head on the inside of my halo seat hard enough to make me think about that for the next lap. And I of course was in full gear, H&R, and only had contact with my cushioned seat halo, way more friendly than a cage.
A race car is safer with a cage. To say a race car is safer without a cage, well, that's nuts. Hell if that's the case we'd be safer without belts, you know, so we can be "thrown clear" of the accident.
I strongly feel that if you are going to be wheel to wheel racing a properly designed, installed, and used cage will result in your car being far safer than one without a cage. Used is the key word here:
*Used with a helmet
*Used with a halo seat to prevent your head from hitting the cage in a side impact
*Used with proper harness and restraint so your body doesn't come in contact with the cage
*Used with H&N restraint
*Used with padding on the cage anywhere you could possibly come in contact with it
Using a cage on the street with none of this in place is a bad idea. Heck, I was qualifying this past Saturday morning and, due to the track transition from the infield to the banking and not realizing what was getting ready to happen, hit my head on the inside of my halo seat hard enough to make me think about that for the next lap. And I of course was in full gear, H&R, and only had contact with my cushioned seat halo, way more friendly than a cage.
A race car is safer with a cage. To say a race car is safer without a cage, well, that's nuts. Hell if that's the case we'd be safer without belts, you know, so we can be "thrown clear" of the accident.