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Impact Safe-T Armor Supports Wildcard Entires Thornton and Young

August 26, 2009 by admin  
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Impact Safe-T Armor of Citrus Heights, Ca, welcomes Veloce Racings 125cc wildcard entries, Miles Thornton(15) and Ben Young(16) to MotoGP.

Ben and Miles wear Impact Armor’s competition chest and back protectors. Both are beneficiaries of the Ethan Gillim “Chasin’ a Dream” Foundation’s chest protectors for kids program.  This ambitious safety initative, a cooperative effort of Chasin’ a Dream, Impact Armor  and the USGPRU race series, saw to it that 30 children  received made to measure chest protectors at no charge.

Impact Armor’s chest and back protectors debuted in MotoGP with the arrival of Colin Edwards and Nicky Hayden in 2003, Roger Hayden in 2007 and continues today with Ben and Miles.

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