{"id":17956,"date":"2015-09-03T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2015-09-16T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T18:25:50","slug":"can-indycars-become-safer-by-learning-from-nhra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/can-indycars-become-safer-by-learning-from-nhra\/","title":{"rendered":"Can IndyCars Become Safer by Learning from NHRA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Drag racer Antron Brown has been\u00a0involved in some nasty crashes, many of which he\u00a0escaped relatively unscathed thanks to\u00a0the canopy that many had criticized and doubted. This has many in the drag racing community questioning whether the canopy would have helped prevent Justin Wilson’s fatal on-track incident.\u00a0Neal Strausbaugh, U.S. Army Dragster assistant crew chief, is the right-hand man to crew chief Mike Green, who oversaw the canopy project at DSR and worked with Indianapolis-based canopy manufacturer Aerodine Composites.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could tell it had been severely hit but not compromised,\u201d Strausbaugh said of the canopy after Brown\u2019s crash. \u201cIt didn\u2019t tear a hole in it. It worked flawlessly. It took us awhile to figure out what it hit. Antron will tell you he never saw it, never heard it, never knew any of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe only knew it from video, and it was very, very difficult to see in the video, because it happened so fast,\u201d he said, adding chances were great that without the cockpit cover, the double-edged dagger of the sheared-off wing could have reached Brown with disastrous consequences.\u00a0Strausbaugh wants the IndyCar Series community about the 11-pound fire-suppression and the fresh-air systems necessary with a canopy.<\/p>\n

It will most likely be a very long and complex road for immediate changes to happen to Indy Car, but perhaps NHRA experts can lend some help that will be effective in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can NHRA help make Indy Car racing safer with their canopy technology?<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":18000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470,3399],"tags":[82,3347,3346,3293,3348,7],"class_list":["post-17956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nhra","tag-antron-brown","tag-competition-plus","tag-indy-car","tag-justin-wilson","tag-mike-green","tag-nhra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/RLP_rl4_8018-e1441328189356.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-4FC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18081,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions\/18081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}