Well, just about every race car these days has extensive roll cage similar to the GTM.
I agree that race car drivers also have other equipment to help them in crashes, like Hans devices, and helmets, BUT, if you had a car with a burly chassis, with 5 point belts, AND airbags (easy enough to install in a road going car) I think you'd have a really safe setup. Safer than the single shoulder belts and airbags we use in today's cars so our clothes don't get ruffled, or take too long to put on.
Airbags would probably negate the need for helmets. I do agree that other things would also need to be implemented, someone strapped into a burly roll caged car would definitely endure more impact forces than today's crumple cars.
I'm no expert, but I watch racing every weekend, and see crashes where the driver should not survive, and they just hop out like nothing happened. ALL these cars have burly rollcage systems, but as pointed out, the drivers are also wearing extra equipment. But a lot of that equipment could be equivalent to airbags and other things in use today without too much extra costs in kit cars.
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Originally Posted by strat61caster
Everyone has already piled on you so I won't, I just want to know what series you're referencing, pretty much all of them have implemented significant crash testing and 'crumple zones' of some sort in their cars.
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