Flo during the week and MAV on Saturday nightMan that is scary. Hope the driver is ok. You can never have enough safety equipment. What channel is broadcasting the Chili bowl?
Yes, 12.50 month or 149.00 year.Is Flo a pay per view?
This might have been a user error on our end, but our RZR now has the prp camlock style harnesses. We hit a witches eye really hard, all the belts came undone on the driver. It could have been not clicked in all the way, the sand didn’t allow it to fully engage or the hand hit the release switch hard enough to come undone. I am still uneasy about it and now carry an air spray can to clean the sand out and make sure I hear each point click in.from what i have seen online, they are speculating that his wrist restraints unlatched the belts. there were a couple of drivers saying they wont use the standard latch anymore because they had them undone by the wrist restraints, they will only use the round camlock style.
i know in the past if you called crow, (who i have used for belts and fire suits / shoes for the last 10+ years) they would advise against the camlock systems in sand cars for that same reason. i personally dont like the camlock due the added "bulk" of them and i find them harder to buckle when im in the car with gloves and a helmet on. with the standard latch i can get them on and have someone else double check and pull my lap belts tight in the car, granted this is in dragsters, but i have seen and sat in a couple sprint car / midgets and the amount of room is comprable but lay out is different.This might have been a user error on our end, but our RZR now has the prp camlock style harnesses. We hit a witches eye really hard, all the belts came undone on the driver. It could have been not clicked in all the way, the sand didn’t allow it to fully engage or the hand hit the release switch hard enough to come undone. I am still uneasy about it and now carry an air spray can to clean the sand out and make sure I hear each point click in.
Hope he has a speedy recovery
His car owner Mickey Meyer from Phoenix is a friend.Jeezus! That was Ashton Torgerson, right? He's lucky to be alive. The violent movements, impact and compression of his head on the track should have killed him. It looks like one of the shoulder straps was pulled out of the top mounting point.
I want to know the failure mode, hope it will be revealed. It seems unlikely that the belt pulled out, but anything is possible. There's a lot of centripetal force generated when the car does end flips like that. You'd think if it was defective, it would have failed when the crew member tightened the belts on the ramp. In the past, I've literally used all the force I could generate and my weight to do that.
Running a Silver Crown car in the Hoosier Hundred at the Indiana State Fairgrounds was one where I really paid attention to belting in the driver because of the speeds and weight of the car.
The annual event will air live on Saturday, January 15th at 8:30 p.m. ET on MAVTV Motorsports Network and MAVTV Plus for yearly subscribers.MAV Saturday. Anyone know what time?
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Companies like Sparco now recommend Camlock belts for everything including dirt oval, offroad and anything that's races on dirt.i know in the past if you called crow, (who i have used for belts and fire suits / shoes for the last 10+ years) they would advise against the camlock systems in sand cars for that same reason. i personally dont like the camlock due the added "bulk" of them and i find them harder to buckle when im in the car with gloves and a helmet on. with the standard latch i can get them on and have someone else double check and pull my lap belts tight in the car, granted this is in dragsters, but i have seen and sat in a couple sprint car / midgets and the amount of room is comprable but lay out is different.
I was never comfortable with cam locks for some reason...Companies like Sparco now recommend Camlock belts for everything including dirt oval, offroad and anything that's races on dirt.
interesting, do you know why the change? im not trying to be argumentive, just wondering why?Companies like Sparco now recommend Camlock belts for everything including dirt oval, offroad and anything that's races on dirt.
I still dont like them, but if prevents stuff like that im all for it as well. i also have to wonder if the wrist restriants were adjusted properly? i personally prefer the ones that are stitched into the sleeves of the suit, set them once and forget it. i have seen many times in the staging lanes guys fully "strapped" in and reaching out of the car to shake hands with some one or moving around way too much for the harness to be tight enough to be effective.I was never comfortable with cam locks for some reason...
But if they prevent this...I'm all over it. View attachment 1188505
Great question...interesting, do you know why the change? im not trying to be argumentive, just wondering why?
I think this incident will send shockwaves through the dirt motorsports community. It's a miracle that a funeral isn't being planned.Great question...
For decades the old latch style belts worked perfectly.
Sparco builds good stuff.
I still think it was a freak kinda deal although if it happened once.
Companies like Sparco now recommend Camlock belts for everything including dirt oval, offroad and anything that's races on dirt.
I agree. I thought they would be easier and more convenient. I really listen to each click, and when I’m not sure, I redo it. It feels like it takes longer to get situated. When I talked to PRP about it, they said their new “boot seal” helps protect it from the sand elements. But, I still don’t feel convinced since that issue came up. If it ever fails again, I’ll take them back and get the latch style again. They weren’t cheap either!i know in the past if you called crow, (who i have used for belts and fire suits / shoes for the last 10+ years) they would advise against the camlock systems in sand cars for that same reason. i personally dont like the camlock due the added "bulk" of them and i find them harder to buckle when im in the car with gloves and a helmet on. with the standard latch i can get them on and have someone else double check and pull my lap belts tight in the car, granted this is in dragsters, but i have seen and sat in a couple sprint car / midgets and the amount of room is comprable but lay out is different.
It was believed that a Camlock seatbelt in an environment where the possibility of dirt/sand intrusion into the buckle could cause the buckle to malfunction. So much so that Camlock's we're illegal by most dirt oval sanctioning bodies like USAC, WoO, etc. New designs and repeated testing by the manufacturers to SFI spec has shown that Camlock's are the preferred design and dirt/sand intrusion does not effect their ability to function in anyway.interesting, do you know why the change? im not trying to be argumentive, just wondering why?