Sticker shock

[danmas]

My post was not meant as a comment on roll bars one way or the other - I just thought it was interesting since we were talking about roll overs.

[HealeyRick]

Not to get too Zapruder-filmy, but it looks like the side of the bar is touching the ground at 1:07-1:08 and keeps the car sliding on its side rather than rolling over.  My point was how much the body flails around in a rollover.  I guess the real question here is whether this driver walked away because of his safety equipment or because he got really lucky.  He was doing 135 which is going to put a lot more energy into a crash than a street crash should do.  I remember reading some of the '50s era racers used to mount a grab handle on the passenger floor and dive for it in the event of a crash.  Wonder how you perform the drills for that move to make it part of muscle memory?

[Jim Stabe]

I was going to bring up the grab handle thing. It would be plausable with 3 point seat belts and would address the flailing arms but imagine what stress that would put on the spine.

[MGBV8]

Does a real driver aim the camera at himself vs at the gauges & track ahead?

[roverman]

Carl and clan, "GoPro-Go Forward". That is the plan with the Huffaker TR8, in april. As for the real driver part, we'll have to wait and see. Cheers, roverman.

[danmas]

Another one upside-down!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvxRZUM_gSQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[MGBV8]

Roll bar didn't help Steve Prefontaine.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thehappyrower/3751732353/

[BlownMGB-V8]

There was a stunt driver who used bungee cords to pull him into the passenger's side floorboard.

Jim

[HealeyRick]

Prefontaine's "rollbar". Really?  According to news reports he was drunk and wasn't wearing his seat belt.

[MGBV8]

Not much of a roll bar.  Read my link, though.