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Originally Posted by AKADriver
A note about harness belt stretch and mounting points for the shoulder belts:
In European touring car racing, it's actually very common to mount the shoulder belts that far back. They design for that extra stretch.
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<Insert rant about Europe not being as safe as we are in the US here.>
They also allowed open tracking w/ no helmets and run on tracks w/o barriers between track sections that involve turns. Don't get me wrong -- some day when I get some time over there, I WILL participate in unsafe motorsports, but on the whole, we are much safer due to our litigous society.
Also, out of curiosity, how could you "design" for strech? There is a finite distance between you and the wheel/dash/windscreen/front hoop. There are, however, kevlar impregnated harnesses that do not stretch. Although the stretch is generally a good thing b/c it absorbs some energy that would otherwise be transferred to your collar bone, in a car with a properly designed cage and crumple zones, it isn't as much of an issue.