What is your thinking about arm restraint, usually window nets, and head and neck restraint? Your cornering speeds and, therefore, the penalty for a mistake, are pretty high.
I fully realize that most HPDE and track day organizations don't require them, but that doesn't mean they aren't prudent.
I ask based on a twenty-plus year experience as both a club and professional racer and instructor.
Well, it's really not possible to argue against any safety device. At the same time, absent a specific set of rules, we all have to make a judgment call about what we're going to do when we bring a street car (or any car) to a track.
Thinking out loud, here's my off-the-cuff list of bad things that could happen to me at the track:
1) My car collides with a wall (or other fixed object), or another car -- and the g-forces snap my neck or tear my aorta or an intrsusion of some kind crunches my body and kills me.
2) My car rolls over and my roof pancakes and kills me (or causes terrible spinal compression injuries).
3) My car catches fire and I die or suffer life-threatening burns.
Having been in a few crashes, those are the big things I think about.
To address those issues, I...
1) do almost all my driving at a track without walls to hit. Generally speaking, this isn't something guys have much of a choice about. But it's huge, in terms of safety.
2) use a head and neck restraint that works for both front-or-rear and lateral impacts.
3) have a full cage in the car to protect in a collision or rollover.
4) have a kill switch, fire extinguisher and integrated Halon fire system built into the car.
I do have window nets, but haven't used them since I raced wheel-to-wheel. I would not be happy to have my arms and hands broken in a rollover, obviously. But I see that as lower down on the list of potential problems than the three above.
I'm not a big fan of arm restraints because of the way they potentially complicate an emergency exit in the case of a fire. But a lot depends on the car, in that respect. And window nets add an additional step as well.
I think there's a false security that comes from thinking that only the really fast cars need to worry about these bigger safety issues. Any car on a track is potentially in for a really bad experience if things go south.
Here's a video that drives the point home:
This guy broke his arm, I'm pretty sure. Although it's hard to say that arm restraints would have been enough in this case. Importantly, he really didn't do anything to bring about the crash. Sometimes things just happen to you.
What are your thoughts?
I was just about to do the same "Fix" 
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