What are some of the new safety features that drivers and fans are going to notice right away?
ROBBIE LOOMIS: That’s a great question. I think the biggest thing that stands out probably when you’re watching a race on Sunday is when you see the driver’s window net up, a lot of the times the driver’s helmet is right against the window net, sometimes pressing outside the window net a little bit. In the Car of Tomorrow, he’s moved over approximately two or three inches towards the center of the vehicle. So whenever there’s a left-side impact, it will definitely put his head a lot further away from harm’s way. There’s things like padding in the sides for the impact. Outside of the door bars, if the car was to T-bone in the door bars. Probably the biggest area that I notice that people don’t look at is the drive shaft area. They’ve really strengthened that up. If a drive shaft flies out of a car, that’s one thing I always worry about most with these race cars. With the tunnel, they way they have constructed that, it’s going to be very safe for the drier. Even if the drive shaft comes
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