[JimD]

Wolfpack,

You have an interesting perspective. Besides the fact that BMW says my car will protect me in a rollover, it also has stability control which should prevent the rollover in the first place. It can be turned off but I don't and would readily accept that requirement to be able to do a track day. Have you ever seen a rollover in a car with stability control that was being used at the time (i.e. not switched off)?

It is not the expense of the roll bar I object to it is the need to do this sort of modification on my 1 year old and pretty expensive little car. If it was a dedicated track car, it would be fine. But for my nice convertible to be permanently modified this way so I can drive it on a track a time or two a year just doesn't make sense to me.

The other thing I can't understand is why the Porsche club allows recent convertibles to do HPDEs but the BMW club does not. It seems like the manufacturer is in a pretty good position to judge the safety of their vehicles. I doubt Porsche convertibles are safer than BM convertibles.

Jim