Well, I hate to interrupt the flow of uninformed opinion, you know....
Nets can be located anyplace secure; the cage is better, obviously, but the door is fine too. (And don't expect it to save your life...the main point of the net is to keep your arm inside so it doesn't get squished between the car and the ground in a rollover.)
Door bars are required on the driver's side only. A passenger's-side bar is great, but you can pass tech without it.--Jay
On Jun 12, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Bailey, Shaun wrote:
Jay,
Can you comment on this? Is there a specific way we must mount our window nets?
Also, door bars. Are they required just for the drivers side?
I'm going to assume that roadracing organizations like SCCA and NASA require mounting to the cage for reasons other than pure frivolity, and mount my window...
Don't be too sure about the scientific validity of anything required by the SCCA/NASA rulebooks. A bunch of that stuff is as much politically driven and based...
I'm curious as to how you manage to pass tech when 15.10 of the NASA CCR says: "15.10 Window Nets Window nets shall be used on the driver's side window. The...
Jay, Can you comment on this? Is there a specific way we must mount our window nets? Also, door bars. Are they required just for the drivers side? Thanks! ...
Well, I hate to interrupt the flow of uninformed opinion, you know.... Nets can be located anyplace secure; the cage is better, obviously, but the door is fine...
Well I guess on the desert trucks we have an additional door latch but in a 1.1 mile track who knows might rip off the door in a rollover .I think its going to...
The Arizona Highway Patrol were mystified when they came upon a pile of smoldering wreckage embedded in the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex...
might be a new rule because I have not raced NASA for a few years. all I know is in the case we are doing, racing $500.00 pieces of crap in a 1.1 mile ...