Exactly, Chip. Then add that, to my eye at least, the thing that's actually killing more drivers...and has the potential for far more collateral damage*....is individual health issues, and the physical standards we must attain are anything but well defined and strict.
* A driver that flies off track an strikes an object will suffer injuries as a result of an incident...but one who has a seizure of some sort while racing is the cause of an incident that can wind up injuring other drives, or worse, workers and spectators. If the club is so worried about the legal ramifications of allowing non SFI head and neck restraints, I'd think they'd be far more worried about the potential lawsuits that could result from an out of control car mowing down people in the pits after a race when a poor driver suffers a health incident.
So, on one hand I see we are being absolute in our insistance on adhering to the ridiculous SFI head and neck standard, stating that the club "Does not want to set standards", on another hand we're crafting illogical rules regarding seats while allowing, or even encouraging, seats that meet standards to be modified in ways that the manufacturers prohibit, and on a third hand we turn a blind eye to the 800 pound gorilla of actual recurring deaths.....
It's easy, for me at least, to get annoyed when one argument is used to defend for one subject but isn't even considered for another....but it's hard for me to aim my anger, because I know the club is made up of volunteers, and each does the best he can with what the club gives him. But you get the feeling that there's no central logic sorting going on at times.*
*And yes, I know I'm boiling things down, and some issues are complex, but when the end result makes little sense and the results are at odds with the goal, something needs to be fixed.
