[robz71lm7]

After sunday's autocross a novice asked on our region's message board about getting a cheap helmet. He got replies ranging from links where you could get an M2000 helmet for $60 and one even $49!

The site we raced at sunday was a military air strip with tall grass off the sides. The dirt wasn't always flat and smooth. In fact, yesterday and S2000 went off into the grass sideways-he wasn't the only one to go off into the grass. Now is it just me or this the kind of place where a good possibility of rolling over exists?

It just kind of disturbs me that people will recommend and use such cheap helmets. Am I being a little excessive here?

What's everyone's opinion on helmets in autocross?

[Dewey316]

Ignoring the issue of keeping you in your seat, it's the relative angle of the belt compared to the spine that matters for protecting your spine.

that is the way I had always understood it should be at a 90* angle compared to the spine, but being that most of us do not sit with our spines vertical, the mounting does end up being below shoulder level.