I’m not sure but I was talking to a friend who is more connected than I am any more and he said an issue they have to deal with on the body tether is how to keep the body in as close to one piece as possible.
I don’t know if that’s true or not but my friend is not a bullshitter or rail bird.
It could be something like that or who knows.
Typing this it seems I remember one other issue was drivers vision. Thinking it through I think it was Hagen or Capps that said they’d rather have the body blow off so they can see. If the body stays on, it could affect their vision.
It’s a tough deal. Guys ought to know when you strap on a helmet and lash your *** to a nitromethane powered bomb that you could get hurt or killed in the blink of an eye.
It’s hard to make something like drag racing death proof.