Ideally the car stays straight The shape of this car in back really allows the maximum dimensions of the spoiler to be achieved both in height and length of the end fences. I suppose it might rip itself off but I doubt it. All of the spoiler is made from .090". The middle of the cross bar that the chord lays on is anchored on the ends and at two points in the middle, down to the chute mount structure. Not sure how hard of a hit it would see from 2-300mph wind but I slammed it against the tethers pretty hard and it seems really solid. If it suffers damage from a spin we will learn something and make improvements to prevent further damage.
I haven't seen a spoiler ripped off a car, maybe others have? I did see the hood ripped off the 222 car in the incident we were discussing above so that worries me a bit about the firebird but I used 20 camlocs to hold the hood on. Daryl still has to glass the cowl into the hood and contour it with the windshield so maybe some camlocs around the cowl into the windshield are in order to prevent hood removal at speed?
We never had a problem with spoiler after spinning but did bend a sideplate
once and it was 3/16th aluminum. but hitting the mile marker might have something to do with it
We added two hood pins at rear of hood next to where it rises up. Hopefully
that will help.
JL222