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Simpson Performance Products
Simpson Performance Products is an American motorsports parts supplier. It supplies gloves, helmets, harness systems, driver's suits, head restraints, shoes and more to racers at local tracks to international teams. It was started by Bill Simpson as Simpson Drag Chutes.
==History==
In 1958, the 18-year-old Simpson broke both arms in a drag racing crash.〔(Biography ) at the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, Retrieved January 8, 2007〕 Simpson said later, "Until then, I was like most drivers. The only time I thought about safety was after I'd been hurt. This time, I was hurt bad enough to do a lot of thinking." 〔
Simpson's uncle owned a military surplus store, and suggested that he use a cross-form parachute to slow down the drag car. Simpson rented a sewing machine to create a prototype. Simpson got together with his friend dragster driver Mike Sorokin to test the prototype. They tested it by attaching it to a tow hitch, and dumping it from the back of the Chevy wagon while Sorokin drove down a street at 100 mph. The chute was too big for the car, and the car went airborne and crashed into a tree nursery. Both racers were jailed for the incident, but Simpson Drag Chutes was founded.〔() Jim Donnelly, Muscle Machines 1203 Hot Rod Hero: Bill Simpson〕
The first person to inquire about and use his parachute was "Big Daddy" Don Garlits.〔() Lori Lovely, "Nuvo Safety Spelled S-i-m-p-s-o-n"〕 He evolved his business into a number of other safety items, such as gloves, helmets, restraints and shoes. Simpson designed NASA's first umbilical cords, where he met Pete Conrad.〔 Conrad introduced Simpson to DuPont product Nomex in 1967. Simpson used the product to create the first fire suit to be used in racing.〔〔 He took the suit to the 1967 Indianapolis 500 where it was worn by 30 of 33 drivers.〔 Simpson had developed over 200 racing safety products, including three generations of fire suits. Simpson demonstrated the suit's effectiveness in 1987, when he was set on fire while wearing a suit.〔() Joanne Korth; "Bill Simpson is glad to be back"; August 21, 2002 St. Petersburg Times〕 To this day, drivers in the NHRA refer to their fire suits as the "Simpson Suit," primarily due to the fact that Simpson Performance Products is synonymous with the fire suit, and also, even to this day, the Simpson name still appears on several of the fire suits, including those worn by the NHRA's Safety Safari crews.
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