Thats gotta hurt - but surprisingly it doesn't?

The chassis worked exactly as it was designed to do :)

In the old days, the chassis would have stayed more or less together, making the crash look less bad, but actually causing more damage to the driver.

Nowadays, the worse the crash looks (bits of car flying all over the place), typically, the better for the driver, as it's done what it should, and the car has absorbed the impact rather than the driver!
 
Really well designed, those dragsters. So many really nasty looking accidents happen and yet so few injuries and fatalities.
 
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