Our Nine Best-Selling Products of the Year

Rank 1. Drawstring Helmet Bag, £6.00. The cheapest item on the list and the most-sold. At £6.00 it is the kind of purchase that goes in the basket alongside something else without a second thought. Most customers buy it with a helmet order. Garreth’s view is that its position at number one says more about how many people are getting started than it does about the bag itself: it is the first thing in the kit bag and the last thing anyone budgets for.

Rank 2. Sparco MS-4 Mechanics Overalls, £73.20. The highest-selling item on the list that has nothing to do with being inside a race car. The MS-4 is workshop wear, not race wear, and it sells to track preparation crews, mechanics doing a full season of club racing support, and to drivers who also work on their own car between rounds. At £73.20 it covers a practical day at the trackside without costing what FIA-rated race wear would. Garreth was not expecting it to rank this high, and it shows up here on its own terms.

Rank 3. Sparco X-Pro Helmet, £90.87. Zero-rated for VAT, so £90.87 is the price on the page. Full face, rated for karting and track days, at the entry point of the Sparco helmet range. Twenty-six sold this year puts it level with the OMP Star Helmet at rank four, which tells you something: the full-face versus open-face question at this price has no clear winner, just different preferences.

Rank 4. OMP Star Helmet – Matt Black, £70.21. Open face, also without VAT. About £20 less than the X-Pro above it and the same number of units sold over the year. Cameron sees the open-face question come up most often from track day drivers who wear glasses, and from kart club beginners who are not yet at a level where a chin bar changes anything for them.

Rank 5. OMP First FIA 8856-2018 Balaclava, £37.20. The first of three OMP First items in the nine. FIA 8856-2018 rated, which is the standard required at most club motorsport level in the UK. Twenty-five sold this year, though that probably understates the real figure: balaclavas often go out with a helmet or a suit order without being the headline item in the basket.

Rank 6. OMP KS-4 Kart Suit 2026, £138.00. A CIK-FIA homologated karting suit, not a circuit race suit, so no FIA circuit racing licence number. Cameron’s first question on any kart suit order is the age and build of the driver, because the KS-4 runs to a karting size chart that does not match adult street clothing. A kart suit that is too large is loose at the collar and cuffs, which matters more in a kart than most people expect. Parents ordering for a child are the most likely to size up by default; Cameron will usually ask before the order goes out.

Rank 7. Sparco RW-4 Open Face Balaclava, £38.40. Open face, FIA-rated. The OMP and Sparco balaclavas sit at five and seven on this list, separated by the kart suit, at prices that are about £1.20 apart. They are a similar product at a similar price and there is no wrong choice between them; the decision usually comes down to the brand of the rest of the kit the customer is buying alongside.

Rank 8. OMP First Race Boots, £141.60. FIA 8856-2018 rated, and part of the same entry-level OMP First range as the balaclava at five and the race suit at nine. Cameron measures feet on the counter for boot orders when a customer comes in, because race boots fit differently to street shoes. The OMP size chart runs small and the boots are the single most-returned item in the footwear range for that reason. If you are ordering online and are between sizes, go up.

Rank 9. OMP First S Race Suit, £384.00. The highest-priced item on the list and the only one over £200. FIA 8856-2018 rated, entry-level in the OMP race suit range. Nineteen sold is not a large number in absolute terms, but a race suit is not an impulse purchase: every one here represents a driver making their first FIA-rated suit commitment, or replacing kit they have worn for a few seasons. At £384 inc VAT it is the cheaper end of what a new club racer needs to get onto a race licence.