The cars are so much stronger these days ...

a Mclaren - Mercedes SLR rolled six times at 200mph and the driver got out with a bruised arm, and that's a road car.
When they decided to make a cabriolet version they thought they would have to make the monocoque stronger, so they took a standard saloon version and cut the roof off it. When they did the crash test the results were exactly the same.
It would have to be a hell of an accident for a driver to be killed these days, only way I could see it happening would be one car wheel landing on the cockpit of another.
Plus the safety on the tracks is so much better hence the tyre walls.

Posted By: meeky, Apr 28, 14:56:47