Time to replace the scratched and cracked visor on my ST5 composite Stilo helmet. But there are TEN choices. Any advice? Clear, Amber, Smoke (dark & light), Mirror (dark & medium), Iridium (Yellow, Red, Blue). HELP!!!!!!!

 

My Red Iridium helps me looks super cool and fast in the paddock.

 

I need to do similar… following

 

Might be unconventional, but in a closed cockpit my visor is never down (fogs up), and I wear prescription glasses (i.e. eye protection is taken care of). As such, I ended up getting the sun visor:

 

I also did the red iridium visor. Looks good with the carbon and, as noted, it makes me look cool before anyone sees me actually drive 😂

 

I just went from clear to dark blue iridium last week. Looks great and matches my car

 

In a lot of race series it is a requirement to have the visor down during driver changes when the car is being fueled.

 

With windows down, things still fly into the car. Eye glasses do not offer the same impact protection as the visor. The glasses also don't offer fire protection. I should note that I normally run with visor up for the exact same reasons you mentioned, but I am trying to adjust to visor down and figure out solutions to make that easier.

 

Well, I think you are crazy. Fire is the reason I say that.

 

All good points—should note, I'm just doing track days, nothing competitive 👍🏼

 

I agree the risk in racing is greater, but debris and fire don't know the difference between racing and education. A couple seasons ago, I saw two fires on DE days. An E30 at LRP and a C6 Z06 within a couple months of one another. Neither involved an impact.

 

Not trying to pile on but before I had Lasik, and wore glasses, I had something fly into the car and hit me in my eye because my visor was up. I thought my glasses were protection but that turned out not to be true.

Also, fire doesn't know its only practice.

Lastly, and getting back to the OP's question - the answer is red iridium FTW.

 

lol ok ok, I surrender; I’ll put the visor back on! 😂

 

I have the light smoke. It takes the edge off on bright days but not too dark on overcast days.

 

That's what I use too and with the same exact thought: Since I really like to see the track surface, I don't like dark visors. The light smoke keeps me from squinting on bright days and is just fine even on really overcast days.