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Summary: Stay safe in your racing career.Learn about safety equipment inside dragster in this free hot rod video for car race enthusiasts.
Tina Stull's father was her initial inspiration for getting into car racing. She has been racing full-time for the past three years and currently drives a Top Dragster in the NHRA and...read more
"Hi, I'm Tina Stull, and I drive the top dragster for Interstate Batteries. On behalf of Expert Village, I want to talk to you a little bit about getting ready to go to the lanes. I like to keep all of my equipment in the same place in my car. Every car is different, but for me I like to keep my gloves up here. It's a small enough space that they stick and I know when I hop in the car that they're there. I have these pegs on the roll cage, and I'm able to keep these here so when I hop in the car I know that I have my arm restraints. I keep my neck roll here, and then it's accessible while I'm getting dressed in the car and I can reach it. And up here, I have the helmet hook, and the helmet lays here. But I won't put that on so that you have better visual inside the car. Another thing that you need to do is get your seatbelts ready. On this car, I like to get up to the line and be able to buckle myself in, and so you loosen your straps. On this car I throw them over. Typically, in dragsters, all of the dragsters can do something similar to this. Bring these over. If I need to loosen them up, I'll loosen those up, put that there. That way when I climb into the car, I do not have to dig for seatbelts because once the adrenaline starts flowing, you can get flustered rather easily."
eHow Article: Safety Equipment Inside of Drag Racing Cars