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| Etc: HANS wins innovation Autosprout award |
by Virgil Ellipse
3rd Dec 2007 |
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The HANS device won the "Pioneering and Innovation" award at AutosproutAUTOSPORT
 Autosport in the days when headlines were a bit easier to write. For a significant part of the population, Thursday isn't just that annoying day that you have to get through to reach Friday, but Autosport day. That's the day when "the world's fastest magazine" plops onto the doormats of motorsport fans worldwide and gives them something to read in the smallest room for the coming week. The magazine boasts some of the industry's most highly regarded journalists, a handful of star contributors in the shape of current and former drivers, pictures from the sport's best photographers and a cartoonist who makes us laugh about one week in ten. The Autosport empire also includes autosport.com, a site to which dotdotdotcomma is clearly hugely endebted, as well as the McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award for young British racing talent (yes, Susie Stoddart, we're looking at you) and the Autosport International show, to which we once somehow got tickets for press day.
The "Head And Neck Safety" mechanism has been credited with saving several lives since it was introduced in Formula One in 2003 and its success at the ceremony set a new record for the oldest technology to win an innovation award.
The designers of the device said that they were delighted to have won, especially since in doing so they beat off stiff challenges from the other nominations, including rubber tyres, wings that produce downforce and the internal combustion engine.
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