Makes ya wonder why full cages are illegal on public roads really doesnt it. .. except if u have to get outta the car quickly or don't have them padded they are a lifesaver
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Makes ya wonder why full cages are illegal on public roads really doesnt it. .. except if u have to get outta the car quickly or don't have them padded they are a lifesaver
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IIRC the exact details of what's legal and what isn't varies from state to state - but could you imagine the results of a collision between a car with a full race cage including connection to front and rear strut tops and a standard small car?
I wouldn't want to be in the small car in that case.
(You could say the same thing about bullbars and roo bars too though, and yet they are legal...)
A lot of it is to do with occupant safety, doesn't really have much to do with hitting other cars. If that was the case then Lada's should never have been sold! :p (I can joke about them too as I used to rally one! ;)) For a full cage to be effective you need to be wearing helmets and seats/harnesses that don't allow you to move at all. Hitting your head against a roll cage bar at any sort of decent speed (even 80km/hr) will kill you instantly... And roll cage padding has no effect. The soft stuff does nothing in an impact, and the hard stuff (the FIA approved stuff) is so hard that without a helmet it's as bad as hitting the roll cage bar.
Roo bars are said to become illegal on all vehicles In metro areas soon supposably (which I doubt, as I don't see a freight trucker digging out the socket set)
I used to have softish foam on my cage haha scrutineers never said anything to me :p
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Unfortunate mate.
Was lucky when i was working pit for a WARC car when the ARC was here that there was no big hits like this.
But for you guys to walk away from that is a real testament to how these cars are built, and the reasons behind it.
get well soon, i say get involved in the ARC mate! watching the 400hp silvia smashing through the gravel was awe inspiring.
not to mention the BDA Escort in the Classics, or even eli evans Civic.......
has there any negatives from the locals/event organisers?
cos i know for one of the series i race in we were told if anyone crashed it would be highly likely that we wouldnt be allowed to race there ever again (in openwheelers at least)
400hp silvia on gravel!! wtf are they crazy!? 400hp is crazy enough but to use a RWD on gravel is just stupid IMO :p
sorry to thread jack greg...
here it is brent, i got heaps of photos of it too while i was down there...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1NJhM7HjZw
Not to offend
But did the windscreen sticker along the top say Rallyschool?
And good news to see you walk away from that
Yep.
It's the 'RallySchool.com.au Australian Junior Challenge' we were competing in.