Yep it was a Miata and the driver was Robert Plank. He is actually closer to 5' 7".
Ashraf Farrag wrote: > Tony, > > Was your friend in a Miata? Surprised that I haven't heard this > story, since VIR is my home track. >> I have worried about the height of the bars ever since then. I'm not >> sure there is a good solution. For all practical purposes the bar >> must be short to allow the soft top to function. Having a roll bar >> without wearing a helmet seems risky to me. > I have a HDHCHTDD and it's pretty close to my noggin with the seat > adjusted so I can sit in the car. I needed it for the height as well > as a Solo-I approved bar to do time-trials. Also, the bends in the > rear diagonals do not give me adequate feeling of security, since > Solo-I rules dictate a larger size tube if one must put a bend in a > tube. I chucked the bolt-in bar for my RX-7 for the same reason (I > didn't know about that requirement at the time) and had a custom one > made. > > Move the bar backwards and you have to lower it and thus, if you > aren't very short, you aren't going to be under the bar. I guess the > solution would be to have the bar pretty far back and run something > like the Brey-Krause "extender" for the Boxster when you are on > track. I can't remember if it was an S2000 or a Z3 but I think one > owner of one of those removed the top and had the bar rear diagonals > going back through the trunk-lid (it was an install for track days > type of bar and removed for DD duties, IIRC). > > My understand is that the proper SFI padding is supposed to take the > hard metal tubing and make it about as hard as the average interior > panel. Even so, that has always been a concern in the back of my > mind. :( > > --Ashraf > _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
