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Urgent Safety Bulletin Sublimated
Race Suits Do Not Meet Sfi Specifications
N A S R National Office posted Tuesday
October 6, 2009.
SSA Media
NASR Bulletin #
05/2009
Please Note: SUBLIMATED RACE SUITS DO NOT MEET SFI SPECIFICATIONS
It’s been brought to the attention of NASR that certain driver
protective suits being manufactured and distributed into the
marketplace present a unique and serious threat to the safety of
drivers. These suits, known as sublimated suits, incorporate an
outer layer of material that is neither flame nor heat resistant and
will melt at relatively low temperatures.
“These suits can be easily identified,” said a representative of SFI,
“ by the nature of their graphics, which are achieved by a process
called dye sublimation. Rather than using more traditional graphic
methods such as patches attached to, or embroidery sewn into the
suit, this process provides for complex and vivid graphics, which
are actually imbedded directly into the outer material layer.”
At first, these suits were distributed only for use in motorsport
disciplines in which the sanctioning bodies have no minimum
standards for driver protective clothing. They are not certified or
identified by the manufacturer as meeting SFI Spec 3.2A, or any
other accepted industry wide standard.
There have already been sublimated suits found on the Australian
Speedway scene produced by Awesome Racewear without SFI approval
badges. These suits do not, and cannot meet any accepted industry
wide standard for driver protection and do not meet the minimum
safety standards set by NASR.
If anyone presents such a suit to scrutineering, the technical
inspectors or scrutineers may refuse to allow the driver to compete
in that race meeting.
All race suits must meet the minimum SFI or FIA safety
specifications for their particular racing division and the suit
must have the appropriate labels and markings identifying these
approvals. NASR encourages the supplier to
If you have any further questions, please contact the NASR Head
Office on (08) 8139 0777
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