Hi everyone, some of you know I've raced in Land Speed racing for 23 years, lately I have three safety concerns that I wondering what your opinions about them would be,
1st one is using the rear spoiler on some cars that have spun out at over 200 mph for any reason, the rear spoiler catches the air when the vehilce is going backwards, causing the car to lift up and flip and crash, my suggestion is use the 2nd way our Rule book calls out the method for installing a rear spoiler, use the one that has the hinge which if you are going backwards would just dump the (air) lifting of the car via the rear wing, maybe avoiding a crash.
2nd one, some folks have their dry sump tank in the passenger seat area of their race car, my concern is what would happen if one of those very hot oil lines came of during a run and prayed hot oil on the driver?? My suggestion is to install a sheet Lexan between the driver and the dry sump tank.
3rd, do we need to pay more attention to the loads we put on our tires so we do not load them past their specs?? I know that ballast is our friend at Bonneville, but do we need to know the weight on the tires from static loads and down force from rear spoiler or front air dam?? Thanks, looking forward to some responses, Dave Bloomberg