Last year "someone" at Ferrari decided to wear an oversized cap and the whole journalist community fell over it.
Analyses ranged from A to Z

BTW Nicky Hayden wore the same thing a year before.
Now Vettel wears it and no one comments on it.

So much for the objectivitiy of our "diva F1 journalists"


photo earlier posted by "bourbon"

Corporate image, or something like that.
Red Bull isn't Ferrari.

And these caps look ridiculous anyhow. Is it ghetto style or what?
They should return to wherever they came from.

It isn't 'ghetto'; it's just a more progressive look. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you have to be so intolerant.

Most of these drivers are young guys who grew up influenced by hip hop culture. Let them wear what they want!

I think Jacques Villeneuve was the first to go with the oversize grunge style..

it's just a style thats come from america, you see it a lot at the x games and because of red bull's involvement in that its become an image thing

Notice the provided image - all 3 exhibits seem to be sporting a long 'do. The oversized cap would provide necessary support without too much padding. Much like a hairmet

Ghetto style? Get a life. You are a bigger reactionary than my nan.

Hayden, Block, Raikkonen, Vettel - all sponsored by energy drinks. Curiously, Marlboro let Hayden keep his flat brim from his Red Bull days, while Kimi simply continued in Red Bull his flat brim from his Marlboro days.

Yep, if they want to look like a twat then let them.

I'm older and I love um, the bigger the better - and you definitely need the longer hair to help keep them from falling down and covering half your face. I've always worn oversized hats because hats in general give me a headache. I don't mind if it is a helmet for off road biking or whatever, but to deal with headaches from an everyday baseball cap sucks. People have worn them since way back - maybe some for that reason - now they are just more popular, lol.

At least he isn't wandering off into the crowd after the race and sharing a beer with them like James Hunt did...

I don't remember anyone caring about Kimi's hat.

it's just a different style of cap. i wear one. infact a lot of under 30s do where i come from. it's fashion, you can roll with it, or bitch about it, it's up to you
also it's not actually bigger at all, it's just the flat brim that makes it look that way,

Thats because to his fans, Kimi Raikkonen was the epitome of cool. Its called double standards and hypocrisy.

I thought the complaint was too many people were criticising the hat but not enough are making fun of Vettel's?

Yip, sad isn´t it.

may I ask, why?

No Atreiu, these are called Trucker Hats.


Couldn't agree more. Vilest fashion article ever created, they are such a horrible eyesore that anyone who wears one deserves a severe thrashing.

no, they're not

i'm out of here before this gets ugly

I never cared for those squared-off GoodYear hats back in the 80s.

They're more similar to American basebal caps (Yankees, anyone?).



That's what the OP pointed out. Many people were taking the mickey of his hat choice...I think it was actually mentioned in mainstream medias article a few times. Yet (rightly) no one gives a toss about other drivers' headwear. Who's the hypocrite?

I thought going to rally with Red Bull would save Kimi from the ridiculous Ferrari fat cap, either to a woolly hat or at least the schoolboy/cricket style cap RBR were using last year. But no, it's followed him .

Caps should be banned IMO, they should be straight about it and just stamp the sponsors' names on their foreheads.

I think it won't be long untill someone will ask Vettel about the hat.
Who knows?! Maybe he lost a bet to Kimi and he has to wear it like this since they are playing badminton, tennis and other games and as Vettel said, he hasn't managed to beat Kimi yet.

I will bitch on behalf of the journos. Those caps are dreadful. F1 drivers should not look like gangsta rappers.

I remember Schumi having oversized cap in the 90´s, many drivers had it.

Vettel grew up in the ghetto? I expect him to be popin some caps in Alonsos ass in Australia then.

Having let off this Kimi-thread-bomb, I don't suppose you'll be back to view the carnage and provide links to these stories? It's the 'whole journalist community' so I assume there must be many.

The ever classy and informative Ed Gorman:



You'd think these 'bloggers' might have something more worthy to report than the size of one's cap, let alone place it at the forefront of an article(!) No wonder Kimi prefers the WRC atmosphere...his cap now has ear mittens yet no one says a word

I like those caps now, im ordering one.

I believe James Allen also gave some "analyses, insight and added value" to the size of the cap

Who cares? Next good thread I see after "MS denies child autograph"

He's young and can wear whatever he wants. His fashing style is still better than Schu's

OK good find - but that's 'one and a half' articles unless you can actually quote James Allen. That still leaves us with what appears to be a pretty shocking exaggeration as a premise for a thread. How about Turun Sanomat? Surely they're included in 'whole journalist community' too? What did they say about the hat?

Ghetto, hip hop, whatever. It's just a name.
You guys should relax, maybe I'll edit the post to add a smiley and help you not take it even half as serious.
Yes, let them wear what they want, no matter how awkward it looks.

We should merge this with the Bing bang fashion thread in the PC.

Question. Since when the hell has someone wearing a certain hat deserved them of a thrashing? Jesus christ its a hat, we don't need a thread about it. There's some real narrow minded old fashioned people lurking these boards.

Blimey - is Alonso's ass so big that Vettel can fit not just one of those caps in it, but several?!

Journalist's are still laughing to the stupid look of those hats. They will report when they can get air.

They don't look gangsta, they just look retarded with those hats.


Answer: Ever since the trucker hat was 'invented' and first worn.

What's wrong with a hat like that? It isn't gangster at all. Just because you've maybe seen it on someone like 50 Cent doesn't mean it is specifically made for those who want to project a gangster image.

No disrespect, but many of you guys are too old and stuffy as are many journalists to keep up with the young guys. That's all there is to it, nothing more. A new generation, new styles that you just are too out of touch with to understand

Not me - I'm down wit da kidz.... Brrrraaaah! Brrrraaaah!

I seriously think that F1 drivers are the most boring looking sportsmen on this earth



how cool is this? hat and hairband included!

but i guess it would not be "paddockly-correct"

What the hell is Cameron Ling doing on the cover of ESPN mag?!

(Most aussie posters will get the reference... )

Oh my god!!! Look at those HATS!!!!

Come ON!!!!!!!!! This just prooves how BORING the F1 races are these days... People are talking about caps!!! RidiculouS!!!!

Whoever really cared about Kimi's hat?

These caps called 59fifty, they are fitted so you cant adjust them, you have to know your headsize in inches when you buy them (and add an extra inch if you wanna look real cool:D) Red Bull make 59fifty and Flexfit caps for ages because of their involvement in MX.

The funny thing about Kimi is that he actually asked Ferrari (the most traditional and conservative team) to taylor-make a cap like this for him as he wont wear that adjustable rubbish Not any driver could pull that at Ferrari, but again, not every driver gets 20mil just to go away from there (Just imagine if he shared his fashion ideas with Ron Dennis, asking for special team merchandise, I imagine Ron's first reaction would not be "OK, Kimi so where did you say we can buy these baggy cargo pants? "

I sometimes imagine that you guys are all a bunch of 70 year old grannies taking tea at the table, with bottle-thick glasses and flowered dresses, complaining about how the "youngsters today" are "misguided".

In that other thread someone had the nerve to name Jacques Villeneuve as the greatest example of "cool" in F1. Jesus.

Nor should it be, he looks like a moron.

Not.

paranoik0, were these two paragraphs in your post composed by two different people?

Was there some huge Kimi hat controversy last year? Remind me, 'cause I seemed to have missed that.

As for the style in question, those flat brimmed, slightly oversized caps were trendier a few seasons ago. I haven't seen as many on the local streets lately.