How hard is a harness driver's helmet?

[Trigger]

Let's use me as a test dummy, that should be an easy visual   

A .22 up close to the back of it, a .30-06 from a distance

A hard strike with a samurai sword or toilet bowl cover to the top of it

I flew up 10 feet from the sulky and landed on it

How is this thing holding up...on me?   

[seriously]

It must be incredibly strong as it is charged with protecting some of the most precious cargo....a harness driver's brain!   Now that is a national treasure.  An 8th Wonder.   

 

[Trigger]

It must be incredibly strong as it is charged with protecting some of the most precious cargo....a harness driver's brain!   Now that is a national treasure.  An 8th Wonder.   

 

 

What's the 7th wonder of the world on that planet, a burrito 

[Kirby's Ace]

I think its.......ALMOST everyone loves him!

MARK FORD

 

[Junebug990]

I remember when this issue first popped up. It was around 82 or 83 when Jack Parker Jr. had a horrific accident at the Meadowlands. After that happened the drivers were wearing motorcycle helmets or prototype for a time. Does anyone remember that.

[dougie]

The helmets seemed pretty hard. My trainer at Pompano allowed me to " jog" a horse at the training track there once. He gave me a helmet while all the others had baseball caps on. A trainer jogging past me named Gordon Norris asked me if i I was "having fun". I was going around about 5 miles per hour and told him I was "terrified". He laughed. I never got back into a bike again.

[toothman]

I remember when this issue first popped up. It was around 82 or 83 when Jack Parker Jr. had a horrific accident at the Meadowlands. After that happened the drivers were wearing motorcycle helmets or prototype for a time. Does anyone remember that.

I remember Del Insko going down at Yonkers in 1975 and suffered a fractured skull when a horse stepped on him and split his plastic batters helmet type helmet.
The Snell Foundation (named after race car driver Pete Snell) monitors and rates the safety of motorcycle and other helmets and they have a rating for harness helmets as well.
Mine was made by Grattan.
Yes, I thought that having my own helmet would help me win the Bartenders Derby at Monti. It didn't.

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