Hi group!!
Is there any online that sells sparco racing gloves / shoes for a good price??
Thanks in advance

 

Not sure about prices... but take a look at

Primm Motorsports http://www.primmracing.com

OG Racing http://www.ogracing.com

hope that helps

 

http://www.subesports.com

 

Thanks for your help guys!

 

Demon Tweeks (UK) has great prices on Sparco, OPM, etc. I bought my OMP suit from someplace in the US (can't remember who) and I could have gotten it for almost half (it was a $700 suit) by buying from Demon Tweeks.

The downside is shipping... it rarely cost less than $50 but if you order enough it is still worth it.

 

Careful if you are using Primm Motorsports. Their stuff is grey market and won't include an SFI patch if that matters to you.

Warren

 

SFI patch??

 

Safety regulations and stuff. SCCA and NASA require SFI patches on most safety gear.

Warren

 

You don't need an SFI patch if it is a 3 layer suit or if you wear underwear.

BTW - The whole SFI thing sucks monkey *****. The FIA Primm suits are the same ones Sparco sells in the States with the SFI patch (per SparcoUSA, who won't put that in writing for some reason).
Politics... BAH!!!

 

My Sparco doesn't have an SFI patch. It has the FIA rating on the collar and it's never been questioned in tech.

 

My friend got a sparco suit from them... for CHEAP... shipping was 20-30 buck.. but when all was said and done still cheaper

 

They look for either the FIA tag (3-layer), or a SFI (single layer +) patch don't they? From what I've heard, it's pretty wierd. If you have a 2 layer nomex suit with a FIA tag (if the 2 layer suits even carry a FIA tag), it's not legal. It has to be a 3 layer FIA suit. On the other hand, you can show up with a SFI single layer with underwear and be ok. Someone needs to get that rule sorted out.

 

I've tried to get that rule sorted with both SCCA and NASA and gotten nowhere.

Sucks monkey *****.

 

Having not looked closely for a few years, it was interesting to double-check the SCCA rulebook on this issue. It really doesn't look that wacky...

SCCA does not actually require the SFI rating - that is just certification that the suit meets their minimum requirements, making it unnecessary for the inspectors to investigate the matter further. SFI 3-2A/1 gets you "legal" but you have to wear fire retardant undies unless you step up to 3-2A/5 or higher (/10, /15 or /20). You can achieve the same legal result with three layers of any of the approved materials however, absent the SFI rating. This presumes that it is obvious that the materials of the suit are on the SCCA list (Nomex, PBI, etc.)

The SFI rating scheme is a result of litigation-happy US culture. SCCA can, by deferring the standard to SFI, claim that it is adhering to accepted standards in its requirements, should it need to try to dodge a liability claim. NASCAR has historically taken a different route, making it the driver's decision what he/she wears for protection - the logic being that, by mandating a particular design, the sanctioning body is endorsing it as sufficient protection. Should an injury occur in that kind of situation, the plaintiff could make the case that the sanctioning body is liable because it did not require sufficient protection. Neither approach is any kind of assurance that a suit won't be successful, of course.

Perhaps most interesting, SFI gets $$ from the manufacturers to test the sandwich of material that they want to sell, and then for each patch to sew on the suit. The tests (at least it was this way 10 years ago when I was more involved in this kind of thing) applied only to the exact sandwich tested - down to color - so it can be a costly undertaking to have a full line of suits tested and SFI'd. Sparco doesn't want to pay to put the patch on suits that aren't destined for the US market simply because it costs them money to do so, even if it is just the cost of the tag.

Kirk

(edit) Sorry - FIA homologation is only recommended and doesn't figure into the requirements at all.




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