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Originally Posted by Deakins
In the video at around 40 mph you went full throttle, immediately started to slide, briefly input around 30* steering correction, and got off the gas. The car, saw all of this AND a sustained 1.20 g's into it's right rear quadrant for nearly a second (along with yaw sensors that indicated the car was sliding sideways/backwards) followed by an impact that pegged the sensor at what looked like beyond 1.25 g's.
On a street car this is exactly the situation that will trigger a side airbag to deploy to help prevent injuries from happening. There's a reason why people wear HANS devices even in full racecars along with full halo seats...the human head is heavy and moves a LONG ways during what isn't even a terrible crash. Sorry this happened but I chalk this one up to the price you sometimes will pay when you track a car designed for the street.
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I honestly have to agree with this comment and what someone else said early supports this too. If you would have had a passenger they almost certainly would have smacked their helmet on the passenger side window/door frame after the spin and when the big "Jolt" happened. So think if said passenger didn't have a helmet on? The side curtain would have 100% done it's job and prevented a potential head injury even though the car didn't "impact" anything, I think that is pretty irrefutable evidence that it did deploy properly...