And in the extreme, you want those tethers to have a fail point, because that' a lot of energy being carried while those assemblies are swinging around. At some point, you want that energy dissipated from the main cell where the driver is located.
Certainly on suspension components, there have been segments on the V8 Supercars coverage where the TV guys talk a bit about various components that are intentionally designed to fail before other pieces do.
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