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certainly not the engine breaking off the back.
I think that’s mainly in high-end sports cars, no? Where the engine goes hurtling off down the highway, taking most of the crash inertia with it.
Whoever came up with the halo should deserves a medal. Impact managed to shear the front partially, driver would’ve died in a split second.
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ElGonzo
That's not entirely true. In fact, I'm going to say it's not. In the old days, that's what carbon fibre cars did, but not today. Today's cars have a monocoque chassis (you've called it the safety cell) that the driver sits in. There are front, rear and side crash structures (nose, rear crash and SIS tubes) which must absorb an impact in a controlled way and side intrusion panels to protect the driver. In the pre-season crash tests for homologation, not only must a certain maximum deceleration on the driver not be exceeded from a particular speed, the chassis must not break when these are tested. That includes not breaking the gearbox (because the rear crash is on the back of it) and certainly not the engine breaking off the back.