It is the most poignant touch to the legacy of a racing icon, who likely would have cursed if someone had demanded that he strap one of those newfangled gizmos over his head. Dale Earnhardt, the ma… ...

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 (Head and Neck Support) device, which protects the head and neck during sudden, violent stops, was optional back in 2001 and Earnhardt was not wearing one when he crashed.

More than 130,000 HANS Devices have been sold since commercial production began in 1990. But as with many "overnight" sensations, years of work went into making the HANS Device a success.

And the minds behind the HANS weren't making the slightest profit—they lost money on each device sold. It took a fatal crash on the big stage to wake the industry up to the HANS—the crash in 2001.

How the HANS Device Flipped the Script on the Safety Narrative in 2000 NASCAR 75: No. 53 in a series of 75 stories that helped define the first three quarters of a century of NASCAR. By Jonathan ...

The aftermath of this incident led NASCAR to mandate the use of the HANS device across its top three racing series on October 17, 2001. This decision signified a significant step forward in ...

The Head and Neck Supportive Device, or HANS Device was invented in the early 1980s by Dr. Robert Hubbard (1943-2019), a biomechanical engineering professor at Michigan State University. Hubbard began ...

Increased safety dominated conversation in days leading to Sunday's Dura-Lube 400 at North Carolina Speedway at Rockingham, N.C., but many of the NASCAR drivers calling for it still weren't ...

It was the second time a HANS has prevented a head or neck injury to Downing in a violent crash. In June of 2012, a rear wing support collapsed on the back straight at Mid-Ohio during an SCCA club ...