"What exactly are people worried about"
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One bad injury or death and other venues would have a terrible time getting insurance. If one is stupid enough to go on a highway to see how fast his street car/bike is then they are taking that liability. When a venue gives them a place to do it, then what? Think about it and answer your own question.
Jim
I have thought about it and accidents still happen WITH safety equipment. There is no guarantee that someone will or will not survive a highspeed crash. We can debate that forever...
"What exactly are people worried about?"
How about the off road truck that flew into the crowd in California last August, eight dead.
Sanction body facing huge liability problems.
Would you feel the same if that Lambo that flew in Texas last year took a right turn into the snow fencing? Would there be any scheduled events this year?
DW
You can't even compare the two events. Have you even been to an offroad race like Baja? There is no safety for the fans, those people stand on the track at anytime during the day. That wasn't the first time a vehicle has flow off course at one of those events and probably won't be the last.
As far as comparing it to Texas, there is a safety zone that is protected and people aren't even allowed past a certain point so keeping the vehicles from going into the crowd isn't even in question here. I think you guys have Texas confused with another event. People aren't standing on the edge of the runway while people are racing...
Thank you thank you RansomT, dw, jb, and sabat.
Like I side before I have no dog in the motorcycle fight so i'll stay on the porch but autos are different. You can get away from a bike. Saw a feller lay one down at maxton in Oct., but a car or truck is different. If I'm not mistaken 135 is the bump for having a 4 or 6 point cage at Maxton. This is a bit low if you have mentioned Vette but I know I wouldn't want to go bottoms up in our Karmann Ghia without a cage and we are just tickling the 140s. But there can't be a rule for each car or year or style or what safety rating it came with in whatever year so its set at 135.
Zach
and I agree. There is a whole lot of difference between your Karmann Ghia at 140+ and a production Vette at 140+, that I can't answer. But I do know, you can go 150 at Bonneville without a cage.
All good points RansomT.
However, there were cars that went over 150 at Bonneville without a cage, for a couple TV shows.....how did they get around it?
