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February 16, 2018 at
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What are the green or blue LED lights behind drivers seat,havent seen them before.
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February 16, 2018 at
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I was wondering about that at Chil Bowl too....
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February 16, 2018 at
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February 16, 2018 at
08:23:04 PM by revjimk
I was wondering about the blue lights also, until I realized they were advertising "Fryers, broilers & Detroit barbeque ribs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPW-MGnR5o
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February 16, 2018 at
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Posted By: deicer on February 16 2018 at 03:32:43 PM
What are the green or blue LED lights behind drivers seat,havent seen them before.
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If you watch this Facebook Live, at about 25 minutes in USAC Racing’s Levi Jones gives a very nice explanation.
https://www.facebook.com/speedshifttv/videos/1627149427353906/
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February 19, 2018 at
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I agree it's a good idea, and an even better idea for tracks that lack adequate lighting and caution lights, which Knoxville covers both of those exceptionally well.
A more feasible idea for a traveling series, as I'd venture to guess that most tracks do not have something like the KRCO, nor multiple caution lights through the turns, including a large big screen.
Keep It Real
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February 19, 2018 at
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Its a good idea and has its merits, but I personally dont see how it addresses the underlying issue of the open unprotected space above a drivers head in Midgets, SIlvercrowns and Sprintcars.
There are many cases where a crash happens and a car cannot avoid the accident in front of them and hitting a car in the drivers compartment. No amount of flashing lights can protect a driver in that situation. Peter Murphy's crash is a good example, it was just a pileup of cars and Peter got hit through that gap in the top of the cage.
There are some great options, KPC Chassis had an H shaped design to protect the head area, EMi/Eagle put a design on their Facebook page just recently in a similar H shape. Both these are welded to the cage which can make driver extraction difficult. Other bolt-on halos and driver head protection is available so should a driver need to be extracted from a car you can unbolt the head protection system and remove the driver. A saw should be part of any crash crews standard equipment though.
Yes these systems spread the impact to the chassis and yes you do see chassis collapse around the drivers compartment because thats what a halo is designed to do, take the energy that was going to hit and driver and move it to the chassis.
A car going 60-100mph into a drivers head is not solved by flashing lights. We need to better protect our drivers.
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