GT VIRUS wrote:Am I the only one who thinks the cage SHOULDN'T of deformed that much?
There was a 'feature' during today's broadcast where they showed the level of protection preventing intrusion in to the driver space from a side impact.
Whilst it was all fairly impressive, I did think there was a small (but possibly important) design flaw.
They were showing the chromoly tubing construction beside the driver and showing how it was braced. They also showed how the driver's seat was located more centrally, stealing space from the centre line of the car, to prevent the driver from being hard up against the door in the event of a side impact. The point of this was to show how the new design prevented the driver from being impacted by the accident.
One of the things I noticed, and that the commentator glossed over quickly, was how the roll-cage tubing had deformed and broken as it had been pushed in towards the driver. Once that frame breaks it provides almost no further protection for the driver and also compromises the integrity of the frame along the line of the car.
What I would like to know is, given there is that gap between the car door, the chromeoly tubing, and the drivers seat, why don't they have a short piece of brace tubing running perpendicular to the drivers seated position from the floor of the car up to the side impact roll-cage to prevent the cage from deforming the way it did? Putting a small triangle of tubing between the floor and the wall tubing would prevent it collapsing like it did in the event of such a side impact.
(I hope that made sense, its hard to describe a 3d configuration in words).
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