The reason we havent seen a serious injury with a full helmet is because the HANS prevents the opportunity for blunt force trama.
They disagree with me about what? I didnt comment on his seat belt positioning, so you must mean Jarrett and Gordon think he was stupid, got a link?
The open face helmet didnt kill him.
Jarret has recalled several times that DE asked him if he was afraid of dying - some articles saying in a mocking manner to rib Jarrett, others say not so much. Either way it’s well documented that DE wouldnt even listen to the science behind the HANS device. Him and several “good ol boys” were too good to listen and attend meetings about it.
Experts conclude he was more than likely dead prior from the basilar skull fracture. Although the rate at which Earnhardt struck the wheel was enough to kill him as well. He had little in his favor at his angle of impact with the devices that failed.
The head left the spine.
He was the only dead guy at the time.
It does when the tech that could have saved him was actually available then. 7 drivers in the 2001 Daytona 500 were wearing the early version of the HANS. It was the same idea, just bulkier.
Nope. Lower left rear side of skull hit something in ****pit when his body was pulled back into seat after left side lap belt broke. Basically he was hung meaning skull was broken at base. Impact broke the skull which ruptured arteries which is actual fatal aspect of basilar skull injury. They bleed out through ears and mouth instantly. Zero chance of survival. His neck ligaments showed no stretching normally found from interial forces of helmet. He died because the front structure of the car was too stiff. Rusty Wallace was allowed to see the car and said his team immediately cut ""the spider" off the front of their chassis. The teams had built a fairly complex "1 tubing structure surrounding the engine. Stiffer was faster. But deadly. They had to partially disassemble the engines for installation.
All of the ribs on left side were broken. Nobody knows if broken during crash or during resuscitation. Possibly his chest DID impact RH area of steering wheel.
Something in the car "karate chopped" him at LR of skull. It was NOT the typical basilar skull fracture resulting from inertial forces. They show up as stretched ligaments in the neck structure.
Kwai Chang Caine was in the backseat.
Those cars bent and absorbed impact. Newer jig built stuff is WAAAAAY stiffer. Stiffer may be faster but sure hurts when you hit stuff.Racing and safety has always been a progression thru time and tragedy. More recently it is the SAFER Barrier.
But competitors grew up with different racing perspectives and disagree or not, people resist change.
Daytona 500 Qualifying:
1970: 194 mph
1980: 194
1987: 210!
1990: 196
2000: 191
2010: 191
2018: 195
I doubt the modern driver would want to climb into a 1970 Cup car and run that speed wearing a 1970 helmet and other 1970s-era gear, chassis/cage, tires, track wall, etc
No wonder they smoked in those cars...
He did sustain a hairline skull fracture from the front of the brain to the rear, as well as sustaining the textbook BSF. Reports show his chin struck the steering wheel with enough force to bend the wheel. Broken ribs. Abdominal bleeding as well as a laceration on the lower abdomen.
Nope. Chin did NOT hit the steering wheel. Skull was impacted at rear not "torqued" apart like a normal basilar skull fracture. I studied this case extensively for more than a year after Nascar report was released. The guy that claimed his chin hit wheel never saw the body and made that claim before the autopsy results were released. His opinion was debuked by autopsy results.
Bohannon’s preliminary conclusions were faulty and simply incorrect. Myers’s reports have been shown as the more than likely scenario. His examinations dissprove theories such as the death from skull striking the the roll cage and death from his head snapping backwards after the initial impact into the seat/rollcage behind him.
This is honestly an awful analogy. Yes, those decisions are all incredibly naive and stupid. Relating it back to Dale, he suffered several injuries in the wrecks he walked away from. Lest we forget when he passed out in the car during pace laps at Darlington (slamming the wall doing so), more than likely due to undiagnosed concussions that caused scars on the brain preventing proper signal from synapse to synapse. Doctors at the time said they could not conclude why he passed out, and he went racing the next week. “Common sense” right? Even other drivers were concerned racing around him and for his own safety. Especially at larger speedways.
Wasting your breath, he thinks DE was a dumb redneck
If you want to add that these people are in a line of work where serious injury and death are an extreme likelihood every day and have watched people they love get mamed or killed due to ignoring safety recommendations, then they themselves voluntarily ignore those same recommendations becuase they are still holier than thou - sure.
You are entitled to your incorrect assumption.
