Course Safety and Emergency Response in Motor Sport

BEN CHAPMAN. Melbourne Australia.

This is the on-line version of my final year thesis on the topic of course safety and emergency response in motor sport. It was undertaken as a half year undergraduate project for my Bachelor of Civil Engineering at Monash University, in which I concentrated my study around transport engineering, traffic engineering and Road Safety. This project was supervised by Peter Daly from the Institute of Transport Studies

I make no claims as to the validity of the information contained in this document. All statements and conclusions are my own, based on my interpretation of data from many sources. Many of the pictures found within this document are from private sources and are copywrited to their respective owners. Most of the photos I did not personally take are being used without permission. No Australian copywrite laws were breached in using pictures from elswhere due to the educational research nature of the project. If you own any of the pictures here and wish to be credited with them, please feel free to email me, and I will acknowledge your contribution.

Converting this thesis to HTML was done in my own time and was not a requirement of the project. I would like any feedback related to the content. Very little has been specifically written on the subject, which makes this all the more important to me. This document may be freely distributed for educational or research purposes, as long as I am always credited with the work. There is over 4 months of my own time in this project, so I would like to be recognised for it. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I will do my best to answer them within 48 hours. This thesis has been designed to be browsed at 1024x768 resolution in netscape 3+, although 800x600 and/or IE should be ok. Pictures are scaled to pixel sizes which will be too big in smaller screens.

Thank You.
Ben Chapman

PAGE 1. An introduction to the competitive nature of motor sport.
PAGE 2.History and development of motor sport safety Vehicle and Driver safety
PAGE 3.History and development of motor sport safety Restrants and Rollover protection
PAGE 4.History and development of motor sport safety Fire protection and Track safety developments
PAGE 5. Current practices in motor sport safety Vehicle and Driver safety features
PAGE 6. Current practices in motor sport safety Track design and emergency response
PAGE 7. Current practices in motor sport safety Specialist motor sport safety requirements
PAGE 8. Current practices in motor sport safety A case study of current practices, Calder Park race complex, track design
PAGE 9. Current practices in motor sport safety A case study of current practices, Calder Park race complex, safety crews, response and equipment
PAGE 10. Latest safety advances and proposals Track safety and Vehicle safety.
PAGE 11. Case Study 1, the death of Ronnie Peterson, Monza 1978
PAGE 12. Case Study 2, the death of Ayrton Senna, Imola 1994
PAGE 13. Case Studies 3 and 4, Jeff Krosnoff and Mark Blundell
PAGE 14. Concluding remarks
PAGE 15. References and Bibliography