Re: Neck Safety Device Comparison
So look at the pull angle on all the retention straps or shock absorbers. The only one that doesn't compress your spine is the Hans. All the others get tight and leave the momentum to yank down. Call me crazy but I don't want that in a crash. I get your body leans forward in a crash but imho not enough for me to be comfortable with the angle on them.
Also, if the Hans devices had a belt slip issue I'd hope they would have added some kind of lip to hold the belt centered by now.
There is a belt channel on all current HANS devices. Not sure when it was added, heck it may have been on very early models I only got mine last year. IMHO i think that video from Issac is a setup, the belts definitely were not tight enough. See below, as doctoring results doesn't seem to be beneath them
Yeah... find the old specmiata thread on the isaac. That guy was a real piece of work. He was always very careful in how he presented his data.
He never did answer some of the more technical questions that some of the safety gurus asked him. And he never did come clean over the fact that the 'single release' wasn't the real issue keeping him from getting an FIA or SFI tag. And then when he lied about the cause of death of that 944 driver.... that was the final nail in his coffin.
I couldn't find 1 particular thread, but quite a few. In all of them I agree with your assessment. In one thread about apparently how SM guys were going to handle the pre race checklist after a tragic fire (that someone died in ??? Due to his fire bottle pin being stuck???), someone mentioned "HANS Straps" as being on their pre race get in the car check and "gbaker" chimed in with "Does this mean you have to remove the HANS straps before you can get out? " when everyone knows thats not the case. Then got all defensive when someone called him out on trying to screw up a thread with what they called "his malarky". Just a shady way to operate.... IMO
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