@as_sv97 No, definitely not 100%. The driver is moved away from the left side roll bar and more towards the center of the vehicle in the nextgen for that reason, as well as the reinforced carbon fiber drivers seat that is next to impossible to break

@1320crusier wrong

Not necessarily. The driver is moved away from the left side roll bar and more towards the center of the vehicle in the nextgen for that reason, as well as the reinforced carbon fiber drivers seat that is next to impossible to break

If the COT had an impact like this I guarantee it would have failed too

@Gary Field  I built these cages prior to nascar outsourcing it to a glorified parts house. Inch and three quarter tubing, .090 wall, four horizontal bars with two studs between each, gussets at every single corner intersection both sides and studs. Our roll cages did not fail on hits just like this, there are late model stock cages that would hold up better than this car.

These cars are becoming more dangerous. Won’t be long before someone ends up killed. It already ended one career, almost ended another. These cars are deathtraps

@Gary Field Ryan new man’s car was destroyed when he flipped. Show me a zero forward speed vs 190 t bone on the other cars. Pretty rare hit

@Crunch Bar buddy you are talking to a guy with a moderate traumatic brain injury from a car accident in 2018. I felt like a million bucks after my accident. I was rear ended at a red light, driving a little s10, lady was driving a full size f150 going 55. No airbag deployment, head hit the steering wheel, was knocked unconscious for a near full 15mins. When I woke up I felt amazing and was “elated” as they call it. It was the brains initial jolt and reaction to the damage that had been done. A flood of dopamine to make up for the restructure of the brain. There’s something that’s called a post secondary injury, look it up. The worst effects don’t show up until 3-6months after. That’s when I really lost my mind. I became manic with psychotic features and now to this day lights are 5 times brighter, battling a migraine as I type this along with tinnitus loud enough to make sirens in the distance hard to hear, as well as mood/mental problems that force me to be on psych meds for the rest of my life. Not to mention the vertigo, insomnia and heat intolerance as well.

Unless they have a CAT scan or MRI at the infield care center, it’s definitely possible to downplay a concussion.

@toyotaecw your example is a wreck at Bristol? That’s cute. But I’m sorry we’ve never seen any of these cars get T-bones at 190MPH

@EclecticHillbilly All of a sudden everybody is an engineering expert. Replace the tubing…wtf. lol