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Well, the reasoning behind their recomendation is due to airbags, so unless you disable your airbags for track days/HPDE I'd stick with open face regardless.
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Originally Posted by nKoan
Well, the reasoning behind their recomendation is due to airbags, so unless you disable your airbags for track days/HPDE I'd stick with open face regardless.
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Possibly, but its a safety issue as to why SCCA recomends against closed face helmets.
Basically, when/if an airbag hits a closed face helmet, it hits at angles as such that it puts pressure on areas that there shouldn't be. Open face prevents that by acting more like a passenger not wearing a helmet (what airbags were designed for).
Basically, when/if an airbag hits a closed face helmet, it hits at angles as such that it puts pressure on areas that there shouldn't be. Open face prevents that by acting more like a passenger not wearing a helmet (what airbags were designed for).
November 16, 2004 - Notification from SCCA National Staff
It has been brought to the attention of SCCA Technical Services that the use of full-face or closed face helmets while driving vehicles with active airbag restraint systems may result in injuries in the event of a crash that deploys the airbag. Because of the location of the steering wheel relative to the driver's position, the airbag axis is on a level with the driver's chin. In a crash with airbag deployment, contact with the chin area of a full-face helmet can be so powerful "that fractures to the jaw cannot be ruled out". (Hubert Gramling, FIA Institute, FT3/AF, 18.5 1999)
Therefore it is highly recommended that full-face helmets not be used in vehicles with functioning airbag systems. Potentially more restrictive language is currently being considered for 2005, which could appear in an early 2005 issue of FasTrack.
It has been brought to the attention of SCCA Technical Services that the use of full-face or closed face helmets while driving vehicles with active airbag restraint systems may result in injuries in the event of a crash that deploys the airbag. Because of the location of the steering wheel relative to the driver's position, the airbag axis is on a level with the driver's chin. In a crash with airbag deployment, contact with the chin area of a full-face helmet can be so powerful "that fractures to the jaw cannot be ruled out". (Hubert Gramling, FIA Institute, FT3/AF, 18.5 1999)
Therefore it is highly recommended that full-face helmets not be used in vehicles with functioning airbag systems. Potentially more restrictive language is currently being considered for 2005, which could appear in an early 2005 issue of FasTrack.
Last edited by Nick Koan; Mar 31, 2005 at 09:54 AM.
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Originally Posted by R4ND0M_AX3
I thought the open face was better for visability reasons.
http://www.scca.com/_Filelibrary/Fil...agAdvisory.pdf
edit: damn it you beat me to it Nick.
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Originally Posted by nKoan
The season is starting soon. You better get used to saying that.
Nee Ner......I'll get you this year!I figure your the only one I have a chance to compete with. Everyone else has way too much experience.
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Originally Posted by STi deede
Nee Ner......I'll get you this year!I figure your the only one I have a chance to compete with. Everyone else has way too much experience.
/getting ready to eat my words when I eventually lose to Deede.
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Originally Posted by nKoan
Excuse me? You think you'll be able to catch me? You think I'm competition? I'm so far up above your head, you won't even stand a chance.
/getting ready to eat my words when I eventually lose to Deede.
/getting ready to eat my words when I eventually lose to Deede.
I don;t know what to say about all that..
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Originally Posted by nKoan
/getting ready to eat my words when I eventually lose to Deede.
Doesn't matter wheither I win or lose.....I'll have a giant grin plastered across my face the entire time.
