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Originally Posted by rayfin
I was wondering why the chute just fell off of the one car and the roll cage was completely "broken" off the other car?
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I do not know why the chutes came off of the car last year, nor why the brakes failed.
I'm pretty sure they cut the cage off of the top of Neil Parker's car. That is standard operating procedure for removing an injured person from a wrecked race car. It's actually SOP for removing injured persons from most any wrecked car. The first concern for emergency personnel is to get the injured person out without causing further injury. If you take them out the top, you can do a better job of keeping the spine aligned. If you have to turn them and lay them over, odds are if there is a spinal injury, you'll make it worse.
It is interesting to note that the car that crashed last year lost its chutes, and reportedly lost its brakes, yet it went through both nets, but the second net was still holding the car somewhat, and the tire barrier stopped it. In the crash this year, the car evidently, from the photos, went through the tire barrier, and was a good distance past the tire barrier. It would appear that this year's crash was at a much higher speed.