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Ok, I know the standard needed to be accepted as race worthy for a helmet but I'm not sure if the age of the helmet makes a difference. In other words if I getan eight year old helmet in good shape, will it pass.
Thanks,
As long as it says SA 2000 or more recent you are good.
3.4: Driver's Helmet: Undamaged, full-face Type SA helmet, Snell SA2000 or better, mandatory. FIA 8860-2000 certification is acceptable. No open-face helmets allowed, ever, period, finito. Type M (in other words, any motorcycle helmets) and other non-SA helmets not allowed. Don't know if your helmet qualifies? Gently peel back the inner padding to find the Type stamp; if it doesn't have an "SA" sticker or stamp, you're boned. Sharing of helmets, fire suits, gloves, etc. is exceedingly gross, but that's no skin off our nose--you're welcome to do it.
Look under the padding inside of the helmut for a 1" square white sticker that says SA2000 or SA2005. If it doesn't have that sticker the helmut will NOT pass tech.
1" square white sticker
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Snell stickers since 2000 are rectangular and sort of reflective. The SA stickers are orange. I couldn't easily find an SA image on the web, so here's a M (Motorcycle) sticker as an example.
Just to be clear for future searchers, the Snell SA sticker (seen below) is what you're looking for--M helmets are not allowed--Nick
Thanks folks.
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