Impact Racing Products, was: "Very disturbing thread"

[BruceG]

Apexspeed has a thread related to SFI severing all ties with Impact Racing since they produced fake SFI stickers for all their equipment for many years. I believe Bill Simpson is the CEO of Impact Racing. If you go to their website there is no mention of the issue.

http://www.apexspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39279

[ddewhurst]

Per SFI:

SFI has elected not to decertify these products immediately in order to minimize the potential hardships to members of the racing community that have been brought about by Impact’s counterfeiting activities.

[dj10]

Oh boy another smear thread!!! WTF OVER

[xr4racer]

They decided not to make it immediately but the date is April 27th. I can say my Impact belts worked in over a 25g crash, sfi or not.

matt

[BruceG]

They decided not to make it immediately but the date is April 27th. I can say my Impact belts worked in over a 25g crash, sfi or not.

matt

Matt...I think the issue is "would you have purchased their equipment if you knew it was not SFI approved,knowing that you you could purchase other equipment that was" How would non SFI equipment affect your tech inspection? I don't know the answer.

[xr4racer]

Of course I would not have bought the belts without SFI as they have to be SFI or FIA to run SCCA. I can tell you if you have an annual after April 27th with Impact belts you will have to replace them before racing.

matt

[xr4racer]

The bigger one is the Impact Driver Suits will no longer be SFI.

matt

[iambhooper]

why would they do this? it makes no sense whatsoever. if you have to make product to certain standards, then they meet and pass those standards. i guess they just didn't want to pay SFI their royalty on the product.

[EdForrest]

What is the most recent information on IMPACT? While I am not much of a NASCAR person...I do see IMPACT products being used.

Has IMPACT made any statement of and / or settlement regarding belts? Is this about actual safety of the product or noise about SFI's labels being produced?

Do we know what is happening???

[gsbaker]

Is this about actual safety of the product or noise about SFI's labels being produced?

SFI will not tell anyone how safe a product is. It's all about the label.