Him having a decent sized cowl saved it. The hood hit the cowl panel first and that saved the roof and windshield, a smaller cowl or stock sized hood would have probably knocked the windshield as well as the roof and caused a LOT more headaches!
its a cevinis hood and is super high quality! there are no cracks in the gelcoat or anything. He still plans to run it because it flew up from not being fully latched.
Him having a decent sized cowl saved it. The hood hit the cowl panel first and that saved the roof and windshield, a smaller cowl or stock sized hood would have probably knocked the windshield as well as the roof and caused a LOT more headaches!