Racesafe™ Stock Car Rollover Safety Simulator Project Competitor safety is the number one priority at Fire & Rescue New Zealand and the Racesafe Stock Car Rollover Safety Simulator was created by Fire & Rescue New Zealand through the generosity of Iron Force Race Cars (sponsor) and Racetech (sponsor) as an aide in teaching drivers the necessity of how to remove a harness and avoid serious injury when getting out of a rollover accident resulting in engine fire. The Racesafe Stock Car Rollover Safety Simulator, the first in New Zealand to use a real Stock car cockpit and roll cage, will enable drivers to safely experience what it is like to be inside a stock car while it’s rolling over and while it’s upside down. Its no good waiting until you have an on track rollover before your realise the importance of having correctly fitting harness, full containment race seat and a HANS device, in addition to knowing how to remove their harness, turn off the fuel and master kill switch while upside down and keeping cool when trouble starts! This simulator will help drivers understand the importance of these things by giving drivers the chance to safely experience the physical, twisting forces and what’s it is like to be inside a stock car while it’s rolling over (20-degree, 90-degree, 180-degree and 360-degree roll simulation) and what it is like to get out of a stock car that has rolled. The rotation can be stopped and locked in at any angle. This simulator will also allow us to teach firefighters, ambulance officers and track officials how to respond to rollover accidents, practice using cervical collar to support a patients neck and head and extrication of conscious injured drivers safely. Overview The Racesafe Rollover Safety Simulator is a stock car cockpit mounted on a custom built trailer. The Racesafe Rollover Safety Simulator recreates what happens to speedway drivers during a rollover crash. The simulator works by rotating the trailer-mounted Stockcar with a driver (crash test dummy) positioned in the vehicle in several positions (on side, on lid etc.) The driver is belted into the simulator cockpit and the Rollover Safety Simulator is tipped over slowly to simulate a roll-over crash. The rotation can be stopped and locked in at any angle (20, 90, 180 and 360-degree full roll). Effects When the roll-over simulator banks through a roll simulation of 20-degree, 90-degree, 180-degree and 360-degrees so the driver can learn the protective function of seat belts under these extreme conditions when the car is inclined laterally and this help drivers safely experience how to unbuckle and get out of a harness of a stockcar after a rollover resulting in a fire. The simulator also teaches competitors the importance of how to shut of fuel valves and master power isolation switch. We, as a team, are extremely proud of this speedway driver safety project and competitors will support our efforts. We look forward to working with competitors and Speedway New Zealand on our journey towards improving driver safety this year and in years to come. Thank you for taking the time to review Racesafe™ Stock Car Rollover Safety Simulator Project. Many thanks in advance. Captain Simon Osborne ADM, Dip Fire, Dip Tch (TAFE) Fire & Rescue New Zealand
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:37:55 +0000
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