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Inspecting Seatbelts and Restraint System

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The Most Destructive NASCAR Crash Everyone Forgot: Mike Harmon's Bristol Wreck Car UP CLOSE!

What happens here

Examine the seatbelt system, specifically noting the extreme length of the belts and where they hook into the chassis. The driver points out how the belts stretched and re-tightened across his chest during the multiple impacts, absorbing significant energy. Also, observe the triangular net (often called a window net) that protected him and may have altered the car's trajectory. These elements highlight the critical function of occupant restraint systems in extreme crash scenarios.

Goal: Evaluate the effectiveness and damage to the driver's restraint system

Tools and materials

  • Wrecked NASCAR Race Car Chevrolet — The car whose restraint system is being inspected

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together across my chest so you kind of absorbed all that in your your torso yep sometimes a little extra muscles don't hurt and I didn't realize that for a long time I got to study it one day looking at it and that's all it could have been cuz I was holding a rear clip there a kicker on that side and the front CP kicker on that side and when we unload it we'll have to tie it off three sections I heard it break into into so you're just going to like pressure wash this the way it is and then take this whole pallet to the museum and be like here you go your problem now well we go we going to take it off the pallet because it's done I'm done when I when I get there this time if it moves again somebody else will do it huh I'm done with it when did the thought cross your mind that you needed to keep this car together and store it all these years well I was in the museum in t for for a long time oh it was and then they had that uh CP few years ago at the hall of fame down here downtown they had a a crash scheme you know so they had this one a couple more that's why it's up here in North Carolina I went down there and got it and brought it up here for for that uh it stayed there about 6 months and I stored it here ever since just uh the museum in Alabama's gone through some changes the rodling and stuff you don't really get the Gest of it till you really see it yeah and person this is yeah yeah yeah I thought once about open Race's rehab and said how bad you really want to do this work all the time never sleep always gone you really want to race just not like what you see on TV for a lot of us you know but I never thought a think about it really I mean I I was very appreciative you know Michael's crash was real similar he's tall as you are more but his car got cut long ways at the dash M and his feet was on the ground and I I don't know his rear clip and front suspension and engine still intact I mean like a wheelbarrow You Know M and I don't know how how he didn't get some feet and leg damage as tall as he is he must a lot of us know to get in a feeble position as much as you can if you bite the crash like that and evident he did something like that so uh but we we talked about it and we both know we on bonus time cuz it could

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