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[QUOTE="Johnrock, post: 167042, member: 16244"] Anyone interested in sending good will wishes to Zanardi, his wife Daniella, and 1 year old son Niccola can check out [url]www.seventhgear.com.[/url] My prayers are with the Zanardi family, this could have been a much greater tragedy, thankfully we are talking about recovery, and not remembrance. Get well soon Alex. Regarding car design, these cars are among the safest in the world, as anyone who saw Memo Gidley's accident a couple weeks ago can attest. The carbon fiber tub of a CART car is basically a capsule around the driver, with all exterior parts designed to break away and absorb the impacts, tranferring less of it to the driver. In Zanardi's case however, the speed differential was so great, I doubt any design could have saved his legs. Super-rigid chassis such as stock cars tranfer much more crash energy to a driver, even in low speed impacts . Tagliani hit Zanardi doing 192 mph, with Zanardi almost completely stopped. Were the car not designed to absorb energy and break apart, the results would have been even more devastating. Sorry for the long winded post, but where car design and safety are concerned, there are huge misconceptions about what makes a race car safe for a driver. A tragic week to say the least. :( P.S. Thanks for the post J.P. [/QUOTE]
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