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Chapters 2 & 3



Chapter 4



Chapters 5-7



Chapter 8

Chapters 2 and 3 give an introduction to safety ideas, your Racing Safety Package, and an overview of motorsports safety from 1937 through 2007

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Usually Lady Luck is not responsible for DNFs, but rather failure of either personel or equipment.  Chapter 4 presents concepts for understanding mechanical failures of equipment.

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Data keeping is critical for both safety and winning.  These three short chapters  (5,6 & 7)deal with how to use and decipher your log-book data.

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Your safety depends upon both vehicle rigidity and under-standing how weight, velocity, momentum, inertia and energy are interrelated.   Chapter 8 removes various misconception dealing with these ideas.

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Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Any controllable vehicle is definitely more safe.  Chapter 9 explains some ways to control loading via vehicle geometry, sprung & unsprung weight distribution, cornering speed, acceleration and various track factors.

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Your vehicle sticks to the track via tire patches.  Chapter 10 leads to Safer behavior by illustrating how tire patches respond to vehicle loading.   Chapter 9 compliments this chapter

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Any Loose or Plowing (tight) vehicle is less safe.  Chapter 11 explains factors that control your vehicle's cornering ability when no lateral (sideways) weight transfer.   Chap. 13 complements this chapter.

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Drag racers and Dry Lake racers will find straight-line handling information in Chapter 12.  This information is important to the safety for all vehicles.

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Chapter 13

     

Lateral (sideways) weight transfers make a vehicle difficult to handle, and hence less safe.   Chapter 13 presents more ideas on how to control both longitudinal and lateral weight transfers.   Chap. 11 is the background for this chapter.

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