[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?

[Nestromo]

I'm 20 years old.

I saved up for 4 years to pay cash for my car.

If it rolls over.... do I really want to live? (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Seriously though, I don't see a lot of rollover risk in autocross. Open tracking is another story. Rolover mostly happens when you are going sideways then your inside tires grab something like a dip in the terrain (like you didn't already know that much) and that sort of terrain change isn't really much of a threat in most autocross situations.

Now, my GF and I were watching a bunch of guys in mostly 240SXs and Civics doing their ricer drifts and e-brake slides one time around a U shaped coned off track, and thise guys were wearing no helmets, approaching curbs at excessive speeds, and hanging their arms out of the windows. THAT isn't safe. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) The problem is that the general public can't tell the difference between that and autocross, and when they see those guys being unsafe they think that all racers (ricers?) are the same way.