Since Foley has released the pics, here are pics of Yuri's helmet. Yep, that cage saved his life. More like Bell saved his life.













More later.

 

Probably oil fire.

 

there were 5 go pros on the car. we recovered all 5. 3 of them worked through the wreck, one has a corrupted file entirely, and one was working but apparently didn't save data from the crash so it stops a few turns before. you'll see the videos tomorrow morning on TV

the flames were from the oil feed line we think. it was doing it all week. after the second day we discovered the oil feed fitting was a little loose, and tightened it only to have it strip. day three in the morning we scrounged up a fitting that would fit, modified it to fit better but apparently it wasnt good enough. on the dyno saturday morning it was visiblely still leaking so we removed it, made more modifications to it including new crush washers etc, but apparently it wasnt enough.

 

Here are a few more of the cage. Notice it was built for a single occupant only and has no diagonals to protect a passenger. That's legal. But it's not strong enough.















I'll post some others tomorrow.

 

FYI, the racers will be on Piers Morgan on CNN August 16th.

 

Autoblog just did a new article on Kevin's cage: http://www.autoblog.com/2012/08/15/d...pik/#continued

And Jalopnik has an update as well: http://jalopnik.com/5935114/heres-je...kes-peak-crash

 

It said piers morgan tonight on CNN at 9PM ET!

 

I'll have you built my roll cage when the time comes for me to buy an evo

 

If someone has the link, please share.

 

there is a diagonal from the passenger side roll hoop to the driver side rear strut. it DEFINATELY saved it from collapsing entirely. i also had a diagonal on the roof from the passenger side roll hoop to the driver side front halo. i did that to triangulate the halo and minimize the chance of the "square" from deflecting. it is also not required in any of the rules, but i did it anyway. it was NOT designed for a single occupant. being a shop car, i fully intended to have a passenger seat in it from the very begining for ride-alongs at HPDE events. thus the reason for NASCAR bars on both sides of the car.



rhys millens had 0 diagonals to the passenger side. if you want an example of a minimalist cage, point to his.

 

He didn't have a passenger! Like hillclimbing should be.

 

Looks like CNN is rebroadcasting at 11:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. CDST

 

Well, someone record and post it .

 

it's tomorrow at 8 pm central.

 

That's true. His cage was MUCH worse. It was a Formula Drift cage and followed their rules, which are so much more minimalist than any other cage rules.

That's one reason I'm asking the PPIHC organization to require FIA rally cookbook, FIA homologated or Rally America cages next year for production based cars.