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Just wanted to say it. Have fun and be safe out there! :)

Below is something for the racing community, the biannual call for papers for SAE's Motorsports Engineering Conference, being held at Concord, NC. The conference is mostly go-fast stuff, but, as usual, there is a significant section on safety. We intend to submit at least one abstract and now...

...and remember: Go fast, stop slow. :023:

http://www.racingsafetyinstitute.org/ Very long story short, this was initiated by sanctioning bodies' desire for an alternative to FIA and SFI. It is not a replacement, just a transparent alternative. There is much interest on the part of high performance manufacturers to participate, so one...

What, you think we spend all summer just lying around? Playing golf or fishing, maybe? Well, forget that nonsense. Da Boss has us chained to our drafting tables here in Area 51, beating on us to come up with new designs. With nothing but bread and water here in the dungeon, it's been a...

Just wanted everyone to have a good, safe time this long weekend. No crashing, got it? Anyone who crashes has to skip dessert. :D

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Free beer to anyone who can spot the driver's head flopping around: <div align="center"></div> Due to a limitation on the number of images that can be posted, I'll point you to the full photo sequence.

Have fun, and keep those belts tight. :)

I accidentally woke up in Topeka today. (Must be the Alzheimer's.) And then I accidentally found myself at Heartland Park where, coincidentally, the NHRA Summer Nationals are being held this weekend. An amazing coincidence. Really, it was. Anyway, since I was already there I decided to...

In addition to reading all the great racing reports for the new season, we also get "news" via the inbox. With a great sense of humor for someone who just crunched their car (note the BMW slogan on the pedestrian overpass), the author's subject line read, "Didn't want to be writing one of these...

This showed up on a circle track forum: <blockquote>I got a idea for a low budget hans devise.... I call it the d.i.r.t (Ducktape Injury Reducing Thing) installation: 1: Tie 24" long string to halo bar tie other end of string to utility knife (or any other knife that will accept a string)...

No prying open the wallet; no making up excuses. None of this the-check-is-in-the-mail stuff, or "I gave at the office" nonsense. Do you want to contribute to the IT.com funding campaign? Then just buy an ISAAC system, you tightwad. That's right. Buy an ISAAC system and receive what is...

In honor of the first annual IT Festival at Mid-Ohio, we are willing to offer up some free entertainment in the form of a crash test at the nearby Delphi lab. Please keep in mind that we are just throwing out the idea. We have no firm plans to test in August, but if we do we would be happy to...

What if a racer could sign up for a program that provided them with a brand new head and neck restraint at no charge if they crashed? If they crash ten times in one season they get ten replacements for free. Or, the whiney wussie racer grazes the wall and wants a new one, just to be safe. It...

Am I simply missing them, or has the poll option moved or been dropped? I want to start one but can't find anything other than "New Topic". TIA.

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If you could review crash test data for nine head and neck restraints, coming from 21 crash tests and generating over 200 load measures, which format would you prefer: 1. Individual charts for each load measure comparing side-by-side results for each product (we're talking ~15 charts), 2. A...

It's time to plan a trip to the crash lab. But before we go, we thought it would be a good idea to ask real race car drivers what kind of testing they would like to see. We have our own ideas, of course, but there is no reason we can't put yours on the list if it makes sense. It would be...

That's when a "paper" titled "Determination of the Pressure Distribution Beneath Two- and Three-Inch Wide Racing Safety Belts" will be presented at the biannual SAE Motorsports Engineering Conference & Exposition. This is an "oral only" paper, meaning that the author is not submitting a formal...