Daytona 500 crash Ryan Newman

With the impact and slide I was expecting a broken arm and or some serious road rash. To see the wreck and all the car went thru, gramps would say, "damn the boy looks good."

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The way these guys are strapped in, window nets etc, there isnt much chance of any road rash at all
 
Not in any rule book that I can find. If arm restraints were required there is no way they would be long enough for the driver to reach all the controls he has to manage during the race. The window net negates the need for arm restraints. Yes, they are a requirement for many sports cars which are open cockpit but that is the only instance I am aware of and have worked with racing of any different types for years. I can't say your are incorrect as I don't know it all but I would appreciate it if you would point me to something that verifies that fact so I can stay up to date.
 
Yeah, I dont know that they use arm restraints. As said, usually reserved for open cockpit cars, not fully enclosed with a windownet
 
HANS device, and arm straps has helped alot too!

The Hans device is a big one. Maybe the biggest. Lot of dudes died from those horrible neck (basilar?) injuries. Where you hit a wall and your head just wants to snap off. I remember a champ car driver dying at a race at Lugan Seca I was at. Hit the wall at the top of the corkscrew head on at like 140mph.
My buddy was a corner worker and I heard some awful details about it. Watched it happen and immediately knew from the sound on the impact that it was very bad and likely fatal. Something like a 100G of force in a milisecond (edit:I think it was much higher actually). The G number was crazy and shocked me, and I am not sure the Hans would have saved him. It was a very sad day. He was a popular driver. Gonzolo? I think he was South American. Maybe Brazilian.

Same thing happened to the Intimidator I believe. Happened a lot on ovals with high speeds and walls right there to turn right into. Dale might have been saved by the Hans device. He ran an open face helmet and a badass mustache. He didn't shave either, he pounded it in with a framing hammer and bit it off on the inside!

I believe that was same weekend Mario Andretti was taking people out in a 2 seat Champ car. He was ripping off very fast laps in it, and he was older at the time. We'd sit right at turn 4. The cars make so much downforce right there you can see contrails coming off the wingtips. And this was the turn most passengers would make it to before passing out and their heads just start flopping around. Very few made it around without going out. Mostly stupid target executives and whatnot. Good fun.
 
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The Hans device is a big one. Maybe the biggest. Lot of dudes died from those horrible neck (basilar?) injuries. Where you hit a wall and your head just wants to snap off. I remember a champ car driver dying at a race at Lugan Seca I was at. Hit the wall at the top of the corkscrew head on at like 140mph.
My buddy was a corner worker and I heard some awful details about it. Watched it happen and immediately knew from the sound on the impact that it was very bad and likely fatal. Something like a 100G of force in a milisecond (edit:I think it was much higher actually). The G number was crazy and shocked me, and I am not sure the Hans would have saved him. It was a very sad day. He was a popular driver. Gonzolo? I think he was South American. Maybe Brazilian.

Same thing happened to the Intimidator I believe. Happened a lot on ovals with high speeds and walls right there to turn right into. Dale might have been saved by the Hans device. He ran an open face helmet and a badass mustache. He didn't shave either, he pounded it in with a framing hammer and bit it off on the inside!

I believe that was same weekend Mario Andretti was taking people out in a 2 seat Champ car. He was ripping off very fast laps in it, and he was older at the time. We'd sit right at turn 4. The cars make so much downforce right there you can see contrails coming off the wingtips. And this was the turn most passengers would make it to before passing out and their heads just start flopping around. Very few made it around without going out. Mostly stupid target executives and whatnot. Good fun.
Didn't Dale refuse to use the HANS device?
 
The HANS device was mandated in all 3 series in October 2001 8 months after Dale's death
It was available before that though. I thought he was one of the drivers saying he wouldnt use it.
 
I think he did say that. He didn’t like the full face helmet either, for the same reason: reduced vision.
A lot of guys wouldn’t have used it unless it was mandated.
 
They were voluntarily running both the HANS and Hutchens devices around that time before anything was standardized or mandated.
 
Watching the video, I’m surprised the fire wasn’t bigger before they got to him...assuming that was fuel I saw pouring out when they zoomed in?
...and now I know:

According to Fox NASCAR reporter Bob Pockrass, NASCAR has confirmed that the liquid was motor oil, which has a much higher flash point than fuel and poses a lower fire hazard than the more volatile E15 NASCAR engines run on.

Unlike most street cars, NASCAR Cup car engines use a dry sump oiling system with a remote expansion tank behind the driver that collects the oil, which is vented and allows the liquid to escape when a vehicle is upside down.

Newman’s fellow NASCAR Ford Mustang driver Brad Keselowski explained that the cars hold about six gallons and that the oil used is typically a light weight blend that flows like water when it’s hot, unlike what most people are used to seeing when they pour it out of a container.



https://www.foxnews.com/auto/heres-why-ryan-newmans-nascar-car-wasnt-engulfed-in-flames
 
...and now I know:

According to Fox NASCAR reporter Bob Pockrass, NASCAR has confirmed that the liquid was motor oil, which has a much higher flash point than fuel and poses a lower fire hazard than the more volatile E15 NASCAR engines run on.

Unlike most street cars, NASCAR Cup car engines use a dry sump oiling system with a remote expansion tank behind the driver that collects the oil, which is vented and allows the liquid to escape when a vehicle is upside down.

Newman’s fellow NASCAR Ford Mustang driver Brad Keselowski explained that the cars hold about six gallons and that the oil used is typically a light weight blend that flows like water when it’s hot, unlike what most people are used to seeing when they pour it out of a container.



https://www.foxnews.com/auto/heres-why-ryan-newmans-nascar-car-wasnt-engulfed-in-flames


SIX GALLONS...WOW!
But, having that much probably keeps it cooler too (and they probably have oil coolers too)

My cars have about 4 quarts.
Wow, six gallons.
 
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