Allan Simonsen - Killed at Le Mans

[sergechronos]

the proverbial rule of thumb for car accidents is that the more violent the crash, the better off the driver probably is. that's because the car in a violent crash tends to expend all of the inertia of the crash into disintegrating. look at Sr.'s crash--doesn't really look like much of anything.

not to say this is always the case, or a hard-and-fast rule...but chances are that if the car flips 9 times, the driver walks away (assuming proper safety gear).

Indeed, which is how things like:


Can happen and the driver is just fine (well, not perfectly fine but he is alive) with nothing more than factory seat belts and airbags.

they could have caged the car so much that the damage would literally buff out. they could have put so many restraints in the car that his body wouldn't have shifted in the seat a inch. he still would probably have died. the inertia of your internal organs getting slammed from 200-0 in a split second can and will rip apart your insides.

Absolutely right, just curious if they fully cage the car or not. Had been thinking about that the other day, namely why some racing bodies require full cage with door bars and some don't.

[anyonebutme]

car is FIA spec full cage. there is NO roadracing sanctioning bodies that allow anything but.

[green-lantern]

Indeed, which is how things like:


Can happen and the driver is just fine (well, not perfectly fine but he is alive) with nothing more than factory seat belts and airbags.

To be fair he wasn't doing anywhere close to 200mph. I get your point though.