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Lewis please use this helmet bro
When did he use that helmet?
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Lewis Hamiltons helmet.
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#101
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 14:21
When did he use that helmet?
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 14:23
When did he use that helmet?
Was a gift from Jason his helmet painter with his first colours and his championship design.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 14:40
The top part works well, the side panels look a complete mess - the edging on the different elements doesn't flow - it goes in places from a white stripe to a black one for no apparent reason - just a mess really.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 15:14
What is it with these cluttered, overly colorful helmets all across the grid? Nobody in F1 has a nice design. They all look like crap that 12 year olds would design in a computer game. I understand sponsor patches make it difficult to keep helmets clean and harmonious but then they go and throw the most idiotic shapes and gradients on any remaining free spots. No sense of style at all. This one is particularly horrible although I'm not exactly surprised as he seems to like looking like a clown anyway. Thank god it doesn't matter on the track, he remains my favourite driver regardless.
Edited by paipa, 02 February 2013 - 15:14.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 16:02
Was a gift from Jason his helmet painter with his first colours and his championship design.
I liked the first design of his helmet at McLaren, it's still my favourite.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 16:14
Here's an idea for a helmet design. Start with an all black design but with dark grey score marks segmenting it. Each segment is titled with a small dark grey goal e.g 1st Pole. As each goal is achieved that segment is removed in a subsequent design, revealing part of a slight altered 'special' yellow helmet design more in tune with his originals?
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 16:22
Really not a fan of it at all. Just looks way too messy! (not the footballer)
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 17:13
At least it's yellow.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 17:19
I don't understand why the red has been split into three separate shapes. It would look much better if it was joined up like it was before. It just looks a bit too busy at the moment.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 17:23
Probably to distinguish between this and Nico's, providing they are both predominantly yellow.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 17:57
I don't love it but I don't think it's hideous or anything. I've seen far worse.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 18:03
Don't worry guys,I think he's going to change it,his fans are speaking and I think he's listening,that helmet won't make it to the first race.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 19:32
I don't understand why the red has been split into three separate shapes. It would look much better if it was joined up like it was before. It just looks a bit too busy at the moment.
Completely agree with you!
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 19:42
The more I look at it the more I like it, I'am still all for in with the old and out with the new though. I do like the red collar around the HANS connector, that should stay and perhaps experiment with different colours there.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 19:46
The more I look at it the more I like it, I'am still all for in with the old and out with the new though. I do like the red collar around the HANS connector, that should stay and perhaps experiment with different colours there.
Yeah, I think the old design will start to look "old" so to speak.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 20:02
A quick test:I don't understand why the red has been split into three separate shapes. It would look much better if it was joined up like it was before. It just looks a bit too busy at the moment.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 20:03
A quick test:
Good job, it looks better like that
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 20:04
So much fuss about another man's helmet. LOL. That's what LH likes !!
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 20:06
So much fuss about another man's helmet. LOL. That's what LH likes !!
Leave him alone, he knows what he is doing!
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 20:10
You saved the helmet lol.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 20:15
Another quick test, without the blue as someone mentioned (sloppy work I know, but to give an idea):
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 20:19
Blue is part of his design though.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 20:20
Yes,i would miss the blue.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 20:26
What detracts from it is that there is far too much in terms of spacial area of the other colours.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 20:35
That looks great actually. If the green was changed to blue then it would be awesome.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 21:33
A quick test:
For me it would be better, this way. But I'm still in favor of the older one.
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Posted 04 February 2013 - 20:23
Cant tell if the back says H.A.M or Hamilton.
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Posted 04 February 2013 - 20:54
Someone saw the helmet's back ?
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Posted 04 February 2013 - 21:19
Didn't the FIA make him tape up H.A.M at the US GP?[img]
Cant tell if the back says H.A.M or Hamilton.
Edit: Just googled it. http://www.thesun.co...rom-helmet.html
Seems the FIA didn't care but it got removed after the Sun complained. Maybe McLaren made him remove it. So I guess it does say H.A.M on the back!
Edited by SirT, 04 February 2013 - 21:23.
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Posted 04 February 2013 - 21:40
I would be very surprised if he went back to the HAM on the back. I can't blame him for doing so because those are his FIA initials. It would be silly though to draw the ire of the silly british press that loves to make a huge deal of that.
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 16:10
No green padding this year.
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 16:12
Didn't the FIA make him tape up H.A.M at the US GP?
Edit: Just googled it. http://www.thesun.co...rom-helmet.html
Seems the FIA didn't care but it got removed after the Sun complained. Maybe McLaren made him remove it. So I guess it does say H.A.M on the back!
Isn't that terribly unsophisticated and juvenile? Hard As a M**********r? Really? A short, skinny racing car driver?
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 16:15
Isn't that terribly unsophisticated and juvenile? Hard As a M**********r? Really? A short, skinny racing car driver?
Yup its so, so terrible.
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 16:17
Isn't that terribly unsophisticated and juvenile? Hard As a M**********r? Really? A short, skinny racing car driver?
Not really.
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 16:30
Yes. I see at 28 he is still immature as ever.Isn't that terribly unsophisticated and juvenile? Hard As a M**********r? Really? A short, skinny racing car driver?
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 16:39
It is from this song
He was the first person I thought of when I saw the name and heard that song...
and whenever I see the initials HAM on the TV especially in qualy, I always think about the song...
If he chooses to have HAM on his helmet, he can just argue that is a short form of his surname.
It's not a big deal anyway
He was the first person I thought of when I saw the name and heard that song...
and whenever I see the initials HAM on the TV especially in qualy, I always think about the song...
If he chooses to have HAM on his helmet, he can just argue that is a short form of his surname.
It's not a big deal anyway
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 17:10
No green padding this year.
Maybe that was kept in the McLaren contract.
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 18:05
It is from this song
If youre like me and just heard that for the first time ... you probably think that was vile.... but if you dont listen to any rap please take my word that its not all as bad as this ... there are actually some sensible positive uplifting rap songs still being made ... despite the efforts of the "....the wicked empire of Def Jam, the land where lyrics are bland and heretics hang" as Canibus rightly called them.
Poor LH if this is the garbage floating around his head ....
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 19:06
If youre like me and just heard that for the first time ... you probably think that was vile.... but if you dont listen to any rap please take my word that its not all as bad as this ... there are actually some sensible positive uplifting rap songs still being made ... despite the efforts of the "....the wicked empire of Def Jam, the land where lyrics are bland and heretics hang" as Canibus rightly called them.
Poor LH if this is the garbage floating around his head ....
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I say "H.A.M." all the time and I don't listen to mainstream hip-hop at all. I actually listen to underground hip-hop all the time and HATE mainstream stuff. It's an abbreviation, nothing more.
I think we all know Lewis' image he likes to go for when not in the car. Hip-hop star lifestyle. But he can put whatever he wants on his helmet (until the FiA tells him not to).
And he's not exactly a "skinny racecar driver", he's pretty built. Look at him compared to Rosberg. Dude has some muscle mass.
This forum is full of ridiculousness.
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 19:12
Meh, I hope he ue will use his green padding again.
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 19:13
We are not going to debate foam.
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 19:24
We are not going to debate foam.
Ha Ha, some people on here would rather start a new thread for that! Personally I'd rather they homologate helmets when they are granted a superlicence...
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 19:28
K... glad to know that... am getting oldI say "H.A.M." all the time and I don't listen to mainstream hip-hop at all. I actually listen to underground hip-hop all the time and HATE mainstream stuff. It's an abbreviation, nothing more.
Not really ... he's a pretty normal guy ... say the folks who know himI think we all know Lewis' image he likes to go for when not in the car. Hip-hop star lifestyle. But he can put whatever he wants on his helmet (until the FiA tells him not to).
And he's not exactly a "skinny racecar driver", he's pretty built. Look at him compared to Rosberg. Dude has some muscle mass.
This forum is full of ridiculousness.
Yeah - but its not that bad ... I've seen worse
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 19:32
We are not going to debate foam.
Better that than all the angst over some lettering that may or may not be present.
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 19:41
Looks great at this angle with Hans.
