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Promoted: The pioneering safety innovation meeting a crucial need

How the development of Racing Nets under FIA Standard 8863-2013 is helping to keep drivers safe in side-angled impacts

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Our experts' guide on how you can become a better racing driver

For all the good work the HANS device has done to protect drivers, as a frontal head restraint system (FHR), it simply was not designed with lateral or angled-side impacts in mind.

This is not an immediate problem in single-seaters with high cockpit sides, but it's a different story in touring car and GT racing where even the most advanced seats cannot offer the same protection.

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