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Race Car Safety

Introduction

This paper is going to explain the major safety devices built into the race cars used in the sport of auto racing. The paper is intended for the general readers that have little knowledge about auto racing and the safety features of a race car. Most readers will have a general grasp for the vocabulary and graphics used, since the sport of auto racing has been growing very rapidly in the past couple of years.

Race cars (see Figure 1) were not always meant for racing. In the early 1920's and 30's when prohibition was in place in America an undercover business flourished. People, mostly farmers had secrets plants where they produced whiskey and moonshine that was undetected by the police. The only real problem in doing this was how they deliver the
finished products without getting caught. The farmers did this by building these really fast cars that could out run any police car in the United States. The men that drove theses cars were......

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