Rollcage issues

[DynoDon]

That statement - "To our untrained eye" - was made by the Bangshift reporter who is... with respect to rollcage fabrication... admittedly untrained. He is reporting on a story so I don't think that there should be an expectation of expertise. And, in his defense, my daughter could probably look at that weld and see that there is no significant penetration. I don't see any can of worms there and I don't see why he should "keep his mouth shut".

This was not a simple roll over. By most accounts, this car rolled 5 or 6 times and then went end over end 5 more times, ending up on the roof. Had there been no penetration of the weld, this junction would have failed very early in the crash and the Halo bar and that leg would have been crushed much further down. It did eventually fail, and it appears that the penetration was not as complete as it could/should have been but all in all it held up very well. To make an off the cuff statement with no expertise and no analysis of the failure which could condemn the builder, is irresponsible and in my opinion inappropriate. When you look at the entire car you can tell that this was very violent and was not an average roll over where a failure like that would be completely unexpected, but I think in this case a more thorough expert analysis is in order before making uneducated statements as to cause of failure. JMO