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Re: lightweight racesuits/helmets
Posted by 'groupbquattro' on 28 Apr 2013 @ 11:09

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Speaking as a father of a cadet driver who recently hit a tyre wall at 30mph head on. ABSOLOUTLY YES. Suit will be fine if its a Level 2 but the helmet needs to be a lightweight helmet.

A Bell CMR lightweight Helmet is around 1.1kgs (ish) vs a normal helmet being around 1.5 (ish). Roughly speaking the g-force for a head on crash at 30 are around 20G (i am not doing the complicated maths, too many variables) as a result a light-weight helmet could weigh around 22kgs in an impact vs a normal helmet weighing around 30kgs. That's quite a force on a little neck!

In addition we also use a Leatt neck-brace (or Valhalla 360) as mandatory safety equipment, we wont go on circuit with out it, we feel its just as important as the helmet.

Hop that helps.

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lightweight racesuits/helmets by 'kartcollector' (27 Apr 2013 @ 14:23)

Re: lightweight racesuits/helmets by 'groupbquattro' << You are here!

Re: lightweight racesuits/helmets by 'kartcollector' (28 Apr 2013 @ 20:54)

Re: lightweight racesuits/helmets by 'groupbquattro' (28 Apr 2013 @ 21:44)

Re: lightweight racesuits/helmets by 'kartcollector' (29 Apr 2013 @ 18:34)

Re: lightweight racesuits/helmets by 'MaxRacewear' (30 Apr 2013 @ 15:24)

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