Local level improvements to safety?

How many drivers at your track are wearing some form of head and neck restraint? Who at your track is looking critically at belts/harnesses/seats? Are drivers at your track wearing oily firesuits with holes in the thread-bare material? Do your rules reflect an attitude of improving driver safety or do they largely ignore the subject?

Since Earnhardt's death in '01, a tremendous amount of improvement has occurred in NASCAR's traveling divisions...much money has been spent, hard science has been applied, research has been done, SAFER barriers have been installed, HANS devices worn, better drivers seats installed. What has trickled down to the local level? Not as much as one would hope over the 7 years!

If you are a driver, you need to read the articles and talk to suppliers about better personal gear...if you are a car owner, you need to support improving your car from a safety perspective... if you are a track promoter/owner/official, you need to think safety on a regular basis...if you are a safety team/emergency service provider, you need to seek out training opportunities and need to interface with track officials to improve your facility's safety situation.

Tell us about your successes, and your existing challenges...others can learn from your experiences! Our goal is for everyone to go home after the races...standing up!

Keith

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The purpose of this blog is for folks to be able to intelligently (most of the time) discuss thoughts and ideas concerning auto racing safety. Whether in the racing safety industry or not, I invite you share our blog. I have been blessed with many years of participation in racing as either a EMT-Paramedic or as a Safety Team member, doing emergency care, firefighting, extrication, and the always necessary track cleanup. I have also been blessed with having many friends and a couple of mentors in the world of racing safety who are passionate about what we do and are very good at doing it! I look forward to seeing this blog develop as a site where the "BS stops when the green flag drops." It is ok to strongly disagree with an idea or concept here...it is not ok to be disagreeable. Let make this the best racing safety blog on the internet...with your help, it is possible.

Keith