Front tow hook

[nick_dk]

What are you guys doing for a front tow hook. I know that one can pull the car from the roll cage but it seems like a traditional front tow hook would be a better solution. I’m curious how tech is going to feel about it when I try and get my logbook. Hopefully they don’t care it’s not on the car. Anyway. What if anything is anyone doing?

 

[Turn 17 - Steven]

It is fairly standard in the formula car world to pull from the rollbar when pulling the car forward during any recovery operation. When you turn up to a racing event for the first time, the rescue teams will generally give you a visit looking at the location of cutoff, fire suppression, and towing points.

 

[Bret DiGiacomo]

What are you guys doing for a front tow hook. I know that one can pull the car from the roll cage but it seems like a traditional front tow hook would be a better solution. I’m curious how tech is going to feel about it when I try and get my logbook. Hopefully they don’t care it’s not on the car. Anyway. What if anything is anyone doing?

haha works great

 

[Jcarr906]

It would be great to have a front tow hook — if nothing else to make winching on to trailer easier! With my Futura trailer/winch configuration the winch cable presses against the nose as the car nears the front of the trailer.

 

[Andor]

View attachment 382haha works great

They didn't even need to use your roll bar... you could of just held onto that hook with your hands... you would of been fine!

 

[Andor]

It would be great to have a front tow hook — if nothing else to make winching on to trailer easier! With my Futura trailer/winch configuration the winch cable presses against the nose as the car nears the front of the trailer.

I do like the idea and I do believe it would be possible.... only issue is the the simplicity of taking the front body panel off and putting it on quickly is eliminated by having a tow hook which is mounted to the chassis sticking out of the front.

Def. think it's possible but can't think of an easy solution that will not require additional 3-4 min. of removing tow hook prior to removing front body panel.

I remove my front panels at least 5-10 times during a race weekend so adding 3-4 min. everytime to remove & then to add the tow-hook adds up.