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COUNTERFEIT HANS POST ANCHORS – TRACKSIDE UPDATE

Atlanta, Georgia - August 21, 2009: HANS Performance Products has been trackside the past few days investigating the counterfeit HANS Post Anchor problem reported earlier.

COO Gary Milgrom has been focused on circle track racing, while Sales Director Howard Bennett has been at the drag strip.

"I must have seen about 150 helmets and exchanged over 50 sets of counterfeit anchors," said Milgrom. He continued, "On the whole, I’ve not had to touch any Simpson, Bell, Arai or Stand21 helmets—they’ve already been fitted with genuine HANS Post Anchors."

Simpson, Bell, Arai and Stand21 have had substantial long-standing relationships with HANS Performance Products. They are among the 200 authorized dealers throughout North America that receive direct factory support.

Bennett said, "We've had a lot of support and thanks from crew chiefs, teams and racers for putting safety first. To ensure all racers have confidence in their safety equipment, we’re continuing our program to replace any counterfeit Post Anchors free of charge."

Details and updates are available at www.hansdevice.com, or by calling HANS direct at 1-888-HANS-999, or contacting any of the company’s dealers.

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRel ... RN20090908

This has to do with Hans suit with Simpson

Check your gear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey JB! Hope all is well with you.

Slight clarification....HANS is going after Impact Racing....owned by Bill Simpson...no longer connected to Simpson Race Products.

Hey DD........

Everything is great with me.

U R absolutely right. Its Impact. A case of when I think of "them" I think of Bill Simpson...typing error/mixup?

Quite a discussion over at Apex..........and your right in your comments over there. Hope to see you soon.

Jerry

There are several versions that are genuine. There are pictures in the PDF file with questions on the Hans website, but here are the questions in text form...

1. Is the post anchor base black and made of plastic? Yes, stop yours is fine, No, go to question 2.
2. Is the center post round? Yes, stop yours is fine, No, go to question 3.
3. Is the center post magnetic? Yes, yours is fine, No - contact your local dealer to get it replaced for free.

A phone call to Hans this afternoon localized the problem to Impact Racing Helmets only...If you have had posts installed by Impact you need to pay close attention to this.