drag race cars Why do race cars don't have airbags?
I was just wondering why race cars (F1, rally, NASCAR, Drag cars) is not fitted with airbags when airbags are most needed by them for obvious reasons. Thanks!
Race Cars are about the safest vehicles you could ever imagine driving. They are safe not because of Air Bags, but because they are built with safety cages and have 5-point safety harnesses. The key to surviving a crash is for the car to remove the energy from the driver's body as slowly as possible. The safety belts and the seat transfer most of the driver's energy to the car during a crash. On a street car, the seatbelts are designed to stretch during a crash, which limits the force placed on the driver and gives him or her a little more time to slow down. On a NASCAR vehicle, however, the seat belts are much stronger -- they are designed to hold the driver tightly in his seat so that his body slows down with the car.
The seat has several important jobs: It must keep the driver inside the roll cage of his car. It must keep the driver from contacting anything hard during a crash. It must absorb some of the energy of the crash by bending. In the past, several deaths occurred when drivers still in their seats were thrown from cars. The shape of the seat is important, too. Most of the seats found in NASCAR race cars wrap around the driver's rib cage. This provides some support during a crash, spreading the load out over the entire rib cage instead of letting it concentrate in a smaller point. Some newer seats wrap around the driver's shoulders as well, which provides better support because the shoulders are more durable than the rib cage
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