Crash! How the HANS Helped Save Auto Racing

The 20-year struggle by Dr. Robert Hubbard and Jim Downing to gain universal acceptance for their life-saving HANS Device--now in use by over 275,000 competitors worldwide--is an amazing tale of family, genius, perseverance, tragedy and triumph. It tells how the world's leading auto racing series shouldered the task of saving their driving heroes--and a sport. Excerpted from the book CRASH! by Jonathan Ingram (with Dr. Robert Hubbard and Jim Downing), this is the story of Jim Downing's awakening to the very real dangers of high-speed frontal impacts and his resolve to do something about it.