The HANS device is an essential part of any race-car driver's equipment locker these days, but it actually came about long before the racing community widely accepted it.

HANS (Head and Neck Support) Performance Products is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the first time its now-mainstream HANS Device was used in racing competition. Dr. Robert Hubbard invented ...

Since that time, the use of the HANS device has saved numerous drivers in all forms of racing, and while the data cannot quantify how many lives it has saved because that would be attempting to ...

More than 40 race drivers ordered revolutionary HANS head-restraint devices Monday in the aftermath of the death of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt in Sunday’s Daytona 500.Had Earnhardt been ...

But following Dale Earnhardt’s death in the 2001 Daytona 500, 250 HANS devices were sold in one week. Today, most race-sanctioning organizations require drivers to wear these lifesavers, and ...

Upwards of 18 drivers wore a HANS or HANS-like device at Atlanta. Most of the latter-day converts came aboard after the death of Dale Earnhardt on the last lap of the recent Daytona 500.

The HANS device—or Head and Neck Support device—has revolutionized motorsport safety since it was first designed in the 1980s. This one simple piece of equipment has managed to reduce ...

"The HANS is the best device we have to date, but I'm not saying it's the best thing. I'm still testing it and trying to make it work, and I don't have it my car at this time." Only six drivers ...

In the season-opening Daytona 500, only a handful of drivers wore the HANS device, short for Head and Neck Support system. ... general manager of Richard Childress Racing.

Drag racing dangerous, but one racer who went airborne in his heavily modified C7 Corvette is thanking his HANS device for saving his life. Incidents like this at a track are always heart-stopping ...