NASCAR 75: No. 53 in a series of 75 stories that helped define the first three quarters of a century of NASCAR.
Invented by Dr. Robert Hubbard and promoted by him and business partner Jim Downing, a five-time IMSA champion, the HANS was designed to prevent the basal skull fractures.
Invented by Dr. Robert Hubbard and promoted by him and business partner Jim Downing, a five-time IMSA champion, the HANS was designed to prevent the basal skull fractures that had killed Busch Series driver Petty and Cup driver Irwin in practice crashes at the New Hampshire oval just two months apart.
Bodine was one of five drivers who wore a HANS in the following year’s Daytona 500. Like many drivers, Dale Earnhardt resisted the strange new device, but was more aggressive in speaking out against the need for improved safety."Tie kerosene rags around your ankles so ants don’t crawl up and eat your candy ass,” said the Intimidator. Before the race, Earnhardt visited the motor home of friend Dale Jarrett, another who would wear the HANS, to inquire about the strange new device.
Adam Petty’s father Kyle was among the five who wore a HANS in the 2001 Daytona 500. Ironically, he was the first driver to wear a HANS in NASCAR competition in the early 1990s, albeit the earlier Model I that had three tethers and a large wrap-around collar.Getty Images
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