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posted October 15, 2004 11:43 PM        Edited By: 12RPilot on 16 Oct 2004 00:43
All I can say is OUCH!!!

This poor guy had a bad day at the track:
http://www.ballsacracing.com/race_reports/101004_brian.php


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posted October 15, 2004 11:55 PM        
At least he didn't get it in his tire.
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posted October 16, 2004 08:42 AM        
I love the "someone is watching out for me" attitude. How do you get that from an event of such incredibly hideous misfortune? The guy is still a hero for going racing the next day. Ya gotta admire that.
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posted October 16, 2004 10:31 AM        
I'm wondering if his faceshield would have stopped or deflected it. At some tracks I'm in the 170s on the straight. I just never contemplated an event like this.
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posted October 16, 2004 12:47 PM        
that had to hurt!! that man should play power ball
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posted October 16, 2004 01:21 PM        
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I'm wondering if his faceshield would have stopped or deflected it. At some tracks I'm in the 170s on the straight. I just never contemplated an event like this.


Good question. When I was racing cars, I got hit in the face shield with a large piece of concrete picked up by a competitors tire. Fortunately, I was wearing a Simpson helmet that had a face shield about twice as thick as any of the current Arai, Shoei or Suomy face shields. I would think that nail could have gone right through a normal face shield.

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posted October 16, 2004 02:24 PM        
What are the odds that would happen.
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Nelson10R


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posted October 17, 2004 08:09 PM        
The screens we use are made of polycarb they would have prevented the nail from reaching your face. The material is very good at absorbing energy.There is a less opticaly clear version of it called lexan thats used for bullet proof windows and on cockpits of aircraft. I have fired pellet guns at polycarb lenses and was able to made a nice dent but not penatration. A drug enforcement officer was hit by 00 bucks shot durring a drug raid and the lenses he was wearing were imbedded with the slug but not penatration, the slug stuck in the lens looks like a rock after it drops onto a smooth sandbox. The poly material mounds up around the projectile. A nail at 170mph has less force than a shotgun projectile traveling at 1200 to 1500 feet per second fired from at point blank range.

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posted October 18, 2004 01:44 AM        
all I can say is OUCH! ! ! ! ! !
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posted October 18, 2004 03:45 AM        
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The screens we use are made of polycarb they would have prevented the nail from reaching your face.

Nelson10R


Well that's comforting at least!!



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