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Back in the early '70's I was following a friend in a clot of cars going around T-9 at Riverside on about the second lap of a Formula Ford race. At about 135 mph his car squirted up 15 feet in the air and came down up-side-down, skidded a ways on the roll hoop...until it collapsed.... and continued to slide on the engine valve cover and his helmet. I figured he was pretty dead as the car was laying flat and his arm was sticking out from under the mess as I went by. Fortunately he did survive to race again after skin grafts and months of recovery. A group of us examined his new Bell Star full face helmet in the impound area. That sucker saved his life as it was ground down flat on one side to the point of almost going thru to his face.
You don't really need a helmet...until you really need it.
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