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Originally Posted by dradernh

Glad to hear you're getting the HANS device! Be sure you get the 2" shoulder straps. I've had the opportunity to feel my HANS device doing its job, and it did it quite well. I had no discomfort at all after the crash (a 70 MPH double-tap into Armco).

What do you think would have happened if you'd had the Suzuka GT, the harness, and a HANS device on and you'd hit the wall side-on?

After talking to the guys at Wine Country motor sports in Sonoma I went with three inch belts. The two inch belts require a HANs device to be safe but the three inchers can work with a hans device as long as you get them seated properly. Given the equal protection rule most groups have, I'd rarely be able to give rides if I got two inch shoulders on either or both seats.

If I had had a harness and seat I think I wouldn't have had the incident actually. I wouldn't have bumped the steering which pushed me over the last six inches or foot that made the whole mess and I would have just thought it was a close call from an early apex (or maybe I would have gone off straight instead of focusing on the yawing of the car from VSC fighting the oversteer I initiated by bumping the steering).

If I had still had the incident and had all the gear, then my neck would be a little less stiff (part of that is also from just fighting G-forces all weekend I think, not just the rapid deceleration of my incident).