Quote Originally Posted by ERC View Post
I can't think of any other circumstances where removing safety equipment means it is more legal.
This happened recently with harnesses and roll hoops in historic single seaters. MSNZ introduced regulations that effectively resulted in them deeming no harness and no roll hoop being "safer" than having a harness or a hoop that didn't strictly meet their regulations (which were in fact unsuitable for historic cars). To give MSNZ their dues, they did eventually change their regulations after some spirited lobbying but it should never have happened in the first place.