[DeTomaso] RACE SAFETY - Leatt Brace - Better alternativetoHans Devise

[Greg Jacobs]

Just how is that supposed to fit if you are in a seated position? It looks
like it will interfere with the headrest of a conventional race seat. 



-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Mad Dog Antenucci
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 12:48 PM
To: John Taphorn
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] RACE SAFETY - Leatt Brace - Better alternativetoHans
Devise

JT,
   
  I don't even know if I have one of those vertebrae/backbone things left to
worrry about.... but I still think its a great idea and must for you
'slacker-puppies' to think about. 
   
  md
  "Do as I say not as I do"
  

John Taphorn <jtaphorn at kingwoodcable.com> wrote:
  Mad Dog

Hopefully, we will never see you "seal of approval" on this unit. It is one 
of those products you buy and pray it never gets utilized.

Looks futuristic. With out reading the info, I suppose you need a closed 
face helmet.

JT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mad Dog Antenucci" 
To: "Mad Dog Antenucci" ; 
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 1:21 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] RACE SAFETY - Leatt Brace - Better alternative 
toHans Devise


> P.S. Correction - web site for Leatt-Brace is www.leatt-brace.com
>
>
> Mad Dog Antenucci wrote:
> For Pantera Racers -
>
> At all most $900 bucks I've had a tough time justifying the investment in 
> the ""Hans Device. And for those who aren't familiar with what the hell it

> is, I'll share some information I found in latest issue of Circle Track 
> magazine.
>
> Like the Hans device its a head and neck brace system that connects to 
> your helmet. More specifically it helps dissibate crash forces on your 
> spine in a collision...In other words as Doc Engles would say, it reduces 
> compression of the spinal column due to the effect of force on the 
> helmet. ;-]> The energy is transferred to the muscles that run on either 
> side of your spine and NOT down your vertebrae. And you guys just thought 
> I was a pretty face!
>
> I've been at ORR and track events the last year or so where other drivers 
> were wearing the Hans devices.... but they looked cumbersome, offered no 
> side to side movement and they use helmet tethers or straps that have to 
> be screwed into your helmet which is bad enough.....since every Pantera 
> racer knows what joy it is to put on a helmet in a Pantera cockpit.... 
> Every guy you do see with one on before a race has to turn his entire body

> to look left or right. Think of Frankenstein with a stick up his ass and 
> you'll get a visual. They look gay but okay I know they do work. One of my

> mean little sick jokes on race day is to call out the drivers name while 
> he has a Hans device on just before he gets into his car just to watch him

> have to turn his entire body around to see who called his name.
>
> Thanks the Pantera Gods along comes Dr. Chris Leatt who invents a better 
> idea in the Leatt Brace www.-bracee.com
>
> Its a nylon reinforced carbon fibre and kevlar system so its also good at 
> stopping projecticles like 762 AK rounds. Okay seriously, the first thing 
> you notice is the Leatt-Brace (tm) goes completly around your neck and 
> according to Rob Fisher of Circle Track it is comfortable and allows you 
> the freedome to move your head in ALL directions...it also does NOT use 
> helmet straps which makes putting it on and taking it off 100% easier. 
> Also according to Rob Fisher the new designed brace achieves 360 degrees 
> of protection allowing the wearer to totally rotate his head over his 
> left or right shoulders which you can't do with the Hans Devise. Seat 
> harness belts also fit over the wingson the front and rear of the 
> Leatt-Brace and its meets SFI 38.1 rating more importantly for you fellow 
> race rich but cash poor slackers its cost is a published $595 bucks so you

> can spend the money you save on more important things like 
> "we-kill-for-peace" decals and cockpit skulls and shrunken
> heads to freak out the competition.
>
> Not ready to give it a mad dawg seal of approval yet but I like what I 
> see...check it out on the web site.
>
>
> Mad Dawg Antenucci
> Team Pantera Racing
> The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing
> www.teampanteraracing.com
>
>
>
> Mad Dawg Antenucci
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> www.teampanteraracing.com
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