Helmet recommendation

[JGood]

I don't mean to sound arrogant but if you are spending a couple hundred $$$ to attend a track day, thousands(??) to improve the performance of your car, why not protect your most valuable asset, your head?

Feff

I'm a cheap bastard that does stupid things and regrets it later.

[BigD]

The Pyrotect is Bell's Chinese manufactured helmet. Thus the lower price. They work fine but there's a substantial difference between them and a higher priced helmet from Simpson, Bell, Arai, etc. Most notably the padding.

I don't mean to sound arrogant but if you are spending a couple hundred $$$ to attend a track day, thousands(??) to improve the performance of your car, why not protect your most valuable asset, your head?

Feff

I've used many Bell loaners at tracks, once a Simpson, and I've tried out several models at shops, I saw NO difference in padding or build quality. They're not that much cheaper than Bell helmets to justify me buying one if there was. In fact all car helmets suck in comfort compared to my hundred dollar motorcycle Shoei helmet.

Any car helmet from the past 30 or 40 years will protect your head just fine. The only reason Snell standards are updated is to keep Bell et al in business. I mean how often do people crash? That's how often people would buy new helmets.

Personal preferences aside, there is nothing more you are doing to protect your head by splurging on a brand name to brag about (or something ridiculous like a CF helmet), than me with my Pyrotect, or Billy Bob with his 40 year old can that he has never damaged.

At the end of the day, what Pyrotect allows you to do is buy a helmet that will be legal for the next 10 years for the price of a used brand name helmet with 0 sacrifice in safety and in my opinion, comfort.