Thread: Helmet for NHRA???

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Bill, be certain to lift the flaps and find the Snell sticker inside the helmet. That's what any good tech inspector will do instead of just looking at the printed "Snell 2005" on the rear of the helmet.

Here's why. Jimmy buys a brand new 2005 Snell. His close friend Bobby has an old helmet that has run out of cert. He pays Jimmy 75 bucks to buy the sticker from inside the new helmet and affixes it to the inside of the old helmet. (Some helmets say nothing on the outside). Jimmy knows that the tech guy at the local track looks at the back of the helmet first and will pass it if it's printed Snell and the date. If there is nothing printed on it, he will pull back the flaps and look for the sticker inside. Jimmy is covered because his helmet has the printing on the back and that's all he needs to slide by and he has recouped part of the cost of the new helmet. Bobby is covered because if the tech sees no printing on the back, he goes inside the helmet and finds a new sticker. He has in effect bought a new helmet that's good for the next 15 years for 75 bucks.

All tech inspectors at our track will pull the flaps back to see the interior sticker regardless of what's printed on the back of the helmet for this reason.

Now, if Jimmy crashes and burns at the next bracket race and the insurance investigator comes out and finds the fraud, a helmet with no sticker inside, the track is in the bag for expenses incurred, including defending itself in court as a result of the suit filed by the widow because the track "failed to provide proper technical inspection according to the Rulebook". And she'll win. A corporation cannot prevail in court against a widow or a child.