Can anyone answer this crash question?

I was in a collision with a semi... head on combined 40mph, hurts like hell, how do these guys drive into walls at over 100 mph? car design or am I a pansy?

Can anyone answer this crash question?
nascar cars are designed with driver safety as a top priority

thats why they walk away from what look like such bad wrecks
Reply:Without all the safety equipment any race car driver has a 20mph crash into a tree could kill you. Your not a pansy.
Reply:The cars are built to absorb the impact by breaking away.If you notice the cars on impact start losing parts as well as parts "crinkeling" these parts are absorbing the largest part of the impact,but still the driver gets the wind knocked out of him and gets an impact from the sudden stop.He will feel the impact the next morning.
Reply:you're not a pansey, they have helmets,neck restraints, hoses all of the safety stuff, you didn't. Even if you are a pansey. At least you took it like a man(hopefully)
Reply:besides cars being set up for driver safety, the walls have barriers inside to absorb alot of the impact.
Reply:Race Cars are designed to take a small collision. However Drivers are now required to ware HANS devises (head and neck support). Also the University of Nebraska Designed the safer-barrier it absorbs some of the momentum from a vehical hitting the wall. Not only does NASCAR use this but it will soon be coming to a highway near you. Any highway that has walls between them or Bridges will soon have these safer-barriers to protect everyone.
Reply:That little two point seat belt and the air bag are hardly the technology you see in a NASCAR bullet or a Formula One rocket.



Glad you survived.
Reply:If you ever get a chance to see the unskinned frame of a NASCAR machine pay attention to the redundant protection provided for the driver.



After all the bars you get to the driver's seat. The seat is made to form a final cocoon for the driver that keeps him belted inside all those bars. Couple that with the harness that distributes the forces across the driver's body, the HANS arrangement to keep from straining and harming the neck and spine, helmet, firesuit, gloves and shoes... all work together to, hopefully, keep the driver contained and safe.



Lighter helmets and the HANS retraints have saved a lot of lives and careers.
Reply:The cars are designed to protect the driver the number one reason for the COT was driver safety. A Wreck does sting pretty bad!

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