[Tom Vaught]

Totally different application for the helmet. Navy Jet vs Drag Racing.

You rarely run into guard rails or concrete walls in a jet.
You might run into another aircraft on the carrier if your plane is shot up.
Most would say flying on a carrier, if properly trained is less dangerous vs a 200 mph
drag car. So I would say your example needs work. A lot of work.

As far as looking like brand new. 300 passes in two years. 10.0 seconds for each pass. 3000 seconds divided by 60 seconds =
less than one hour on the helmet in two years with a lot of racing 150 passes each year.

Now you take the Road Race Guy, runs 4 sessions of 20 minutes each racing weekend. 80 minutes for a weekend.
He runs every month for 6 months. 480 minutes in a year. He wears his helmet for 8 hours in a year.
Now if he runs a nascar race we are not talking 20 minute sessions, we are talking hours for each race.

So I can understand why the Drag Race guy with a 8 second or 9 second car has a helmet that looks like new.
He is sitting in the trailer or on a bench 95% of the time he is at a race track.

I guarantee that Eric will get a lot more time on his helmet road racing vs the minimal wear and tear from running a few 6 second
passes each year.

But keep posting about Drag Racing, Helmets are manufactured for all forms of racing. The Baja 1000 races being another example of wearing a helmet for hours vs seconds.

Tom V.