jgrant

Also, for our car in the 24 Hour, the right-side net was installed as such:






Also, we asked Grand-Am (NASCAR?) tech what their rationale was for having the right side net, and the 2 guys that talked to us basically said that it was about funnelling the driver back into the seat after they get initially thrown forward. They said that a number of drivers get seriously hurt when they are thrown back into the seat and aren't lined up properly. Ensuring they are lined up properly means that not only are they not as twisted up when they get secondary impacts, but the load is more evenly spread out along the back and into the seat.

I guess you could infer that a properly contained driver would be directed back into the seat, but it was interesting to hear them talk about that funnelling effect, and not containment.

GaryM05

Yes, those are exactly what I was referring to - sorry for not being more clear in my initial post.

analogmike

Does the net get in the way when you shift the tall high sequential shifter? The guys at F-L racing in ATL are putting my net in before the PCA ATL race.

jgrant

Not sure if you were asking me, but in our case, our drivers (Ross Bentley being one of them) didn't mention it as an issue. We have about a 4-5" space between the net and the shifter.

Larry Herman

Great point. A good friend of mine had a brake system failure in his GT3 and went off at about 110. He kept it under control and went perfectly straight into the tire wall. The damage was much less than expected and he was completely uninjured.

fatbillybob

IMO that net pictured is too low and too much anchored toward the passenger side

jgrant

Well, it passed Grand-Am tech, and is installed almost identically to the TRG and FL cars that we looked at for reference. (We needed to install it on-site at the 24hr, and went looking to other cars/teams for reference and advice).

If it were any closer to the driver, it would get in the way of the shifter. And it's almost impossible to install it higher, as there's no solid front mounting point any higher.

fatbillybob

Passing tech may not mean functionality just that you have it present per the rules. You could easily raise the net so that the top of the net was about even with a line from your earlobe to the tip of your nose. This would also raise the net up from the shifter. You could then bring the net more toward the driver. If a dashbar is in place and at the level of the spedo you can connect the front of the net here to raise the nose of the net. If a dash bar is not available you can easily attach to the A-piller front support below the windscreen and that will raise the front of the net. Raising the front and the back move the net up away from the shifter.