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Hrant, you and John don't need to agree as far as I am concerned, the info you guys provide is what is valuable and then any reader can do what they want with that info. I happen to be a higher than average safety-concious person as my family is a bunch of doctors and they have shown me plenty of X-rays and pictures of car accidents, many of racing. My poor sister was in tears one day after a guy that looked like me came in with every bone in his body broken from some car racing event. "Please stop" she told me. I never want to be taken to her hospital in an ambulance.In my short stint in HPDE's, I have seen a minimum of one incident per event I have been to, even if there were no "accidents". Plenty of people running off, hitting cones, just missing barriers. And most of this shit is in the novice class. I am so happy to not be in that group now. The vette driver said "The other guy didn't slow to let me pass so I had to really nail it". He is probably both right and stupid for doing so. Guys pass without being waved, cars don't slow, and then there is always the one clown.... its those guys I worry about. If it was a group of people that were calmer and cool-headed like myself and liquid, I'd definitely feel more safe.If I may steer this thread back a little, can a good rollbar be even fabricated for this car that would protect in a rollover but not be a full cage? I just think I want a harness. It would help me feel the car more and not slip and slide on the fine armorall'ed leather. If it is possible to get a true rollbar rather than a harness bar, I prefer to do so. Matt337 suggested a CG lock to me. I feel too loosey goosey now with the leather seats that really don't have proper support for track use. I feel a lot better in cars with a harness. It just feels better going around a track in a harness. you are one with the car.
Hrant, you and John don't need to agree as far as I am concerned, the info you guys provide is what is valuable and then any reader can do what they want with that info. I happen to be a higher than average safety-concious person as my family is a bunch of doctors and they have shown me plenty of X-rays and pictures of car accidents, many of racing. My poor sister was in tears one day after a guy that looked like me came in with every bone in his body broken from some car racing event. "Please stop" she told me. I never want to be taken to her hospital in an ambulance.
In my short stint in HPDE's, I have seen a minimum of one incident per event I have been to, even if there were no "accidents". Plenty of people running off, hitting cones, just missing barriers. And most of this shit is in the novice class. I am so happy to not be in that group now. The vette driver said "The other guy didn't slow to let me pass so I had to really nail it". He is probably both right and stupid for doing so. Guys pass without being waved, cars don't slow, and then there is always the one clown.... its those guys I worry about. If it was a group of people that were calmer and cool-headed like myself and liquid, I'd definitely feel more safe.
If I may steer this thread back a little, can a good rollbar be even fabricated for this car that would protect in a rollover but not be a full cage? I just think I want a harness. It would help me feel the car more and not slip and slide on the fine armorall'ed leather. If it is possible to get a true rollbar rather than a harness bar, I prefer to do so. Matt337 suggested a CG lock to me. I feel too loosey goosey now with the leather seats that really don't have proper support for track use. I feel a lot better in cars with a harness. It just feels better going around a track in a harness. you are one with the car.
