The aftermath required that drivers wear neck and head restraints. Helmets were further improved and safety precautionary became key concerns. NASCAR also joined forces with Indy Car and the team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The results of their merging introduced the Steel and Foam Energy Reducing systems known as the SAFER barrier. The barrier is basically a stack of eight inch by eight inch steel tubes, cabled and bolted to a solid wall with foam pillars cushioned between them. In the verge of an impact, the foam is crushed by the walls and absorbs the energy disseminated by the blow and lessens the potential crash on the driver. The scientific technological advanced has enhance safety measure in motor racing (Pulver, 2015).
Beside seat belts and helmets additional mechanical advances have developed over the course of time to ascertain maximum safety for the drivers, spectators and team organizers. Early in 1952, NASCAR designers required that a roll bar be inserted in racing cars. The roll bar went from the door post to the car’s roof in order to stop the roof from caving in, a rollover scenario. By the dawn of 1960s, Ralph Moody and John Holman, key members from the Ford industry, began to design roll cages that …show more content…
These developments have brought significant contributions in the ways in which motor racing is conducted with strictness in measure of protections. Motor racing governing bodies such as the FIA, which governs global motorsport through the World Major Sport Council, have set higher safety regulations that have resulted in considerable reductions in fatalities and serious injuries during events. The FIA body works along with specialized Sporting Commissions and Working Parties which include: Medical Commission, Circuit and Safety Commission, Technical Commission and Formula One Safety Commission (Wright,
Beside seat belts and helmets additional mechanical advances have developed over the course of time to ascertain maximum safety for the drivers, spectators and team organizers. Early in 1952, NASCAR designers required that a roll bar be inserted in racing cars. The roll bar went from the door post to the car’s roof in order to stop the roof from caving in, a rollover scenario. By the dawn of 1960s, Ralph Moody and John Holman, key members from the Ford industry, began to design roll cages that …show more content…
These developments have brought significant contributions in the ways in which motor racing is conducted with strictness in measure of protections. Motor racing governing bodies such as the FIA, which governs global motorsport through the World Major Sport Council, have set higher safety regulations that have resulted in considerable reductions in fatalities and serious injuries during events. The FIA body works along with specialized Sporting Commissions and Working Parties which include: Medical Commission, Circuit and Safety Commission, Technical Commission and Formula One Safety Commission (Wright,