I spent yesterday doing some BMST volunteering. Del and Lucas bought a trailer that is being converted to become the new event trailer where you will pick up your timing slip, buy merch, and register on site once the event gets underway. With the always thoughtful and supportive guidance of Larry Reber the five of us completed the last bit of demo of the interior and began installing a counter and cabinets to Del's plan. Del seemed pretty happy when the day's work came to an end as a minor hail storm rolled in.
I admit to an ulterior motive with these volunteer sessions, in that I get an opportunity to pick Del's brain a bit about upcoming changes for the new season. The good news for us AMA racers is that the AMA helmet requirement seems to be unchanged for 2020.
However, for FIM racers the FIM now requires an FIM spec helmet to run for FIM records. The details about this spec are on the FIM site, and that is the place to find a list of approved helmets -
https://www.frhp.org/circuit%20helmets/homologated-helmetsDel pointed out that not only does the helmet have to be one that is on the FIM list, note that in some cases only certain sizes of a particular helmet have been approved. Also note that an FIM approved model on the list may not have DOT approval and thus may not be available in the States. The bottom line is that, in order to pass inspection for running FIM, a helmet will have to have the proper FIM approval sticker in it. Just thought I would throw this out there so you FIM racers can get a jump on finding a helmet with the proper FIM sticker. It would suck to get to scrutineering with a plan to try for a world record and find out your helmet isn't approved to run FIM.