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Originally Posted by HSLdriver
2) Dearth of literature on street-car BSF: What little one can find in street-car BSF is buried in general collision studies and is almost always the result of cabin penetration by an object or significant cabin deformation--basically accidents that were not survivable regardless of safety equipment. If restraints worked in street cars, we'd expect to see studies demonstrating this (why? Because the bread and butter of academics is finding something new, and showing that street-car BSFs are common enough to address would easily get funding or contribute to tenure, and would breeze past any Ph.D. dissertation committee, never mind leading to proposals for "head seatbelts" or other BSF-related safety items).
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Nobody is wearing a Hybrid S during daily driving and many race tracks have lots of runoff and/or deformable barriers to reduce G load in the event of an impact with a barrier. Then think about how many people in HPDE are actually pushing the car hard enough to possibly have an incident where a Hybrid S would save their life...this may explain the lack of literature. Also if someone experiences a BSF during an HPDE event, is there even any literature or publicly available information that it happened unless one of their relatives shares a detailed cause of death? Those who really want to push their car may have already stepped up to a harness/cage before they experienced such an incident.
After driving on 100 treadwear tires for the first time, I decided that it is worth buying a Hybrid S for the peace of mind. The added weight of the helmet works against you if you ever have a big frontal impact on track without a Hybrid S.