Track Gloves? Why?
#17
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Originally Posted by RickBetterley
Buy them at Lime Rock - it will be a good excuse to go in the store and get warm.
#20
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Yeah, that might be too grippy, you've got a point. I use leather gloves on a leather-wrapped wheel and have had perfect results. Suede is harder to clean, too, if that's a concern of yours.
#22
If you are only wearing gloves for fire protection then you should be wearing a full suit. Why stop at the gloves ? You want pretty hands but your sack burned off ? No way
Gloves by themselves are simply for grip and a bright color helps with the passing signal thing.
Gloves by themselves are simply for grip and a bright color helps with the passing signal thing.
#25
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Originally Posted by AndyT
If you are only wearing gloves for fire protection then you should be wearing a full suit. Why stop at the gloves ? You want pretty hands but your sack burned off ? No way
Gloves by themselves are simply for grip and a bright color helps with the passing signal thing.
Gloves by themselves are simply for grip and a bright color helps with the passing signal thing.
Granted, a full suit would offer you more protection, as would a full on cage vs. just a rollbar. Sometimes you have to compromise...
-Z
#26
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I use suede on suede. I can't see how you can have too much mechanical grip as it allows the hand and forearm muscles to work less.
If you like the thought of gloves but don't want to spend the $75 or so for a decent pair to experiment, try some all-leather golf or racquetball gloves. They'll give you better grip, white ones are good for giving passing signals, and are only ~$10 each.
If you like the thought of gloves but don't want to spend the $75 or so for a decent pair to experiment, try some all-leather golf or racquetball gloves. They'll give you better grip, white ones are good for giving passing signals, and are only ~$10 each.
#29
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Originally Posted by AndyT
If you are only wearing gloves for fire protection then you should be wearing a full suit. Why stop at the gloves ? You want pretty hands but your sack burned off ? No way
Gloves by themselves are simply for grip and a bright color helps with the passing signal thing.
Gloves by themselves are simply for grip and a bright color helps with the passing signal thing.
Hands are very easy to burn as they have lots of surface and are also complex and hard to repair if burned. You would need to use your hands to get out of a banged up car and the gloves could help in this with or without fire involvement. Your hands will be at work during an exit.
To say you should have a suit as well or skip the gloves is to discount the value of the gloves. The gloves have little down side but a suit does in some cases. Heat is one. Have a suit on in a stock car in a DE and you might increase the chance of heat stroking to the point that it is higher than the likelihood of being in a car fire. This means you are now less safe overall. The gloves are much less expensive and have multiple positive values with little negitive cost to any aspect of safety from their use.
EDIT my post sounded like I thought you were saying to skip the gloves, I was not intending it to sound like that as I don't think you were.
Last edited by kurt M; 04-12-2007 at 04:22 PM.