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Old 06-05-2007, 11:13 PM
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I think these rules are more than fair. I would rather see them enforced now than after someone is seriously injured in a rollover.

And as spooky says there's plenty of fast down the straight slow in the corners cars that don't get under the 1:11.99 lap time. Are they any safer?

I'm probably going to annoy a few people but I Ithink the roll bar rules should be across the board.

Kit manufacturers should be taking the rollbar fitment and design far more seriously than they do. When building mine I made several modds to the chassis to beef up roll over protection. The seatbelt bracket in the boot that one leg attatches too got a shear plate welded across it to strengthen the whole thing. There was no provision on the chassis to mount the third leg so I welded a mount onto the chassis under the boot floor.

A cosmetic rollbar is about as much use as a chocolate fire guard. Realistically how much extra effort would it have been to make it a proper structural bar?

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