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*Standards are an essential component in car racing.* Regarding safety, standards warrants that a basic safety protection is offered to the different race car participants (Racers, Driver, Crew, Rescue Team, etc.). Sanctioning bodies that generates these standards establish a list of tests that a product must undergo to earn their safety sticker (length of exposure to flame, applied pressure on the product or it components, resistance to different types of impacts, from different angles, etc., etc.). Several samples of each product (according to size, options, etc.) are sent by the manufacturers to test laboratory that are certified by the sanctioning bodies, the certification is delivered if such product passes all test required. Here is a summary of the most common and the most stringent standards for the HANS^® system.
STANDARDS
Extracts from the FIA rules: Wearing a head restraint approved by the FIA will be mandatory for all drivers and co-drivers in international events. Be careful! Check with the federation governing your championship: decisions to make the HANS^® System mandatory can be very sudden and it is not advisable, in terms of comfort and safety, to install the HANS^® System at the last minute or in a short notice without a professional.

FIA 8858-2010	FIA 8858-2002

SFI Spec 38.1
Where required
FIA: Formula 1, Formula 2, GP2, GP3, WTCC, FIA GT, WRC, LMS and more other transnational oriented categories. SNELL: Mainly of the local and national competitions (Most particularly in the U.S.A) majority.
Validity period
SNELL SA 2000 helmets will no longer be accepted in any competitions under FIA regulation after 01/01/2015. No date set yet for the FIA 8860-2010, FIA 8860-2004 helmets and SNELLSA (H) 2010 and SNELL SA 2005 helmets. The BSI BS6658-85 A/FR standard that is used in rally will no longer be valid after 12/31/2013.
More info
www.fia.com (FIA) www.smf.org (SNELL) www.stand21.fr
NEW FIA 8858-2010 STANDARD
You will find herein all possible setups combinations HANS^® - tethers - post anchors – helmets, following the newly released FIA 8858-2010 Frontal Head Restraint (FHR) standard. For reading this matrix, you can either start from the HANS^® / thethers (on the left side of the matrix) or start from the helmet - post anchors (on the right side of the matrix), the arrows show that any combinations allowed on the left side can be used with any combinations allowed on the right side (and vice versa).

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