@BillyBob- I meant no offense to you personally with my comments above, I'm guessing you didn't take them that way but if so they were not intended to be personal slights.
The human body can only handle a certain amount of acceleration and deceleration and there's ways to protect it and many ways to put it in jeopardy.
Earnhardt Sr. was killed at what amounted to a 30 mph impact (he was going ~190, but far more importantly he hit the wall at an angle so the G load at impact was akin to a 30 mph hit. It was the crappy angle he wasn't protected for, which was all it took to snuff his flame).
Dale's death was a huge trigger for us in the racing community to learn far more about G-load limits and vastly more importantly to educate drivers and chassis builders about just how important these little details are. We've come a long way since that day in Daytona. Let's not devolve back from that, even in a TJ on a goat trail somewhere.
The human body can only handle a certain amount of acceleration and deceleration and there's ways to protect it and many ways to put it in jeopardy.
Earnhardt Sr. was killed at what amounted to a 30 mph impact (he was going ~190, but far more importantly he hit the wall at an angle so the G load at impact was akin to a 30 mph hit. It was the crappy angle he wasn't protected for, which was all it took to snuff his flame).
Dale's death was a huge trigger for us in the racing community to learn far more about G-load limits and vastly more importantly to educate drivers and chassis builders about just how important these little details are. We've come a long way since that day in Daytona. Let's not devolve back from that, even in a TJ on a goat trail somewhere.
