Arai Helmet (株式会社 アライヘルメット) is a Japanese company that designs & manufactures motorcycle helmets and other helmets for motorsport. It was formed in 1926 by Hirotake Arai as a hatmaker. He was born in Tokyo as the eldest son of Yuichiroh Arai and he founded the business in 1937 for manufacturing the headgears and in 1949 their manufacturing headquarter started to make factory workers helmets. Arai Helmet Ltd was established in Ohmiya, Saitama. Now, his eldest son, Micio Arai holds the president of this company.
Every Arai helmet is hand-built. The superior quality is well-known and always named as No.1 helmet maker worldwide. All Arai helmets sold in the USA meet or exceed the Snell Memorial Foundation safety standards. The current certification for motorcycles is M2010 which was released in the beginning of 2010. For auto racing and karting the helmets that are sold today are still SA2005 and K2005 certified, these helmets will be legal for competition until 2015.
Arai has been ranked first in customer satisfaction in all ten annual J. D. Power and Associates Motorcycle Helmet Satisfaction Studies. Several prominent MotoGP racers use Arai including Nicky Hayden and Dani Pedrosa. Although popular in MotoGP many of the Formula 1 drivers also use Arai Helmets since the Arai GP-6 RC is one of the few helmets that meets the FIA requirements for the sports. The drivers include: Adrian Sutil, Heikki Kovalainen, Kamui Kobayashi, Lewis Hamilton, Lucas Di Grassi, Mark Webber, Rubens Barrichello, Sebastian Vettel, and Jenson Button.
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