Helmets edition 2020

Edited by Beri, 15 February 2020 - 20:49.

I think Askew's is comfortably the worst.  What the **** actually IS it?

Askew and Palou's are bad but Ferrucci's is an abomination.

I think Askew's is comfortably the worst. What the **** actually IS it?

Edited by Knowlesy, 16 February 2020 - 05:52.

You have got to be kidding me.

Ah well... guess it doesn't matter with the halo in front of it

* for display purposes only*

Please?!

Last years wasn't that different though.

You have got to be kidding me.

Ah well... guess it doesn't matter with the halo in front of it

I really don't get it. In the past, drivers could be recognized by their helmets and each driver had their personal design which they used for their entire career.

That turned into a corporate exercise where sponsorship dominates and drivers use helmet designs dictated by their sponsors (especially Red Bull-sponsored drivers).

Then the FIA decided to allow drivers their own numbers to make them more recognizable and the teams immediately make their numbers unrecognizable.

It's like they are taking the piss on purpose.

They're all just a bunch of corporate bots now.

It's the reverse of what has happened in the US.  For years drivers did not have personal designs.  They mostly matched the car colour scheme, so were sponsor-dependent.  Andretti's iconic design was a by-product of a sponsorship deal with Viceroy Cigarettes, who had what might be termed a reverse Marlboro logo. Add that to his traditional silver helmet and you have something so distinctive he kept it for his career.

Hence if you try to think of a Rick Mears or Al Unser (sr or jr) design you're going to think of a sponsor creation.  It perhaps says a lot that Johnny Rutherford is so well known as Lone Star JR as he did have his own design (albeit basically just the single-starred Texan flag on top).

Just checked my calendar to see if it wasn't April Fools...

 

You have got to be kidding me.

 

Ah well... guess it doesn't matter with the halo in front of it

I really don't get it. In the past, drivers could be recognized by their helmets and each driver had their personal design which they used for their entire career.

That turned into a corporate exercise where sponsorship dominates and drivers use helmet designs dictated by their sponsors (especially Red Bull-sponsored drivers).

 

Then the FIA decided to allow drivers their own numbers to make them more recognizable and the teams immediately make their numbers unrecognizable.

 

It's like they are taking the piss on purpose.

Even Red Bull must have seen this and thought: "Come on guys! Even we let them have a slight hint of their own design!"

Here's to yet another season of David Croft correcting us, that we should watch the t-cam color instead of the helmets...

Ergh, what's the [Racing] point?

Two different shades of pink though ;)

You have got to be kidding me.

Ah well... guess it doesn't matter with the halo in front of it

 

You have got to be kidding me.

 

Ah well... guess it doesn't matter with the halo in front of it

Edited by Silberpfeil, 18 February 2020 - 21:18.

I quite like Ocon’s design for this year. Still a bit too swooshy, but the gold is incorporated nicely, and I’m still a big fan of the Eiffel Tower on the top. Only having two main colours keeps it nice and distinctive, especially if Ricciardo lives up to the hype. Pictures can be found here: https://twitter.com/...5634340865?s=21

SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH...

Generic videogame helmet.

Kevin Magnussen's lid this season. Matches the Haas colors as well as the colors of the danish flag, still has his signature K on it. Looks nice, I think.

Edited by KongKurs, 19 February 2020 - 07:14.

RIC goes purple

Racing Point helmet not those seen a few posts above

No, but they're still both pink. 

Racing Point trolled us.

 

You have got to be kidding me.

 

Ah well... guess it doesn't matter with the halo in front of it

Look like a bag of walkers prawn cocktail crisps.

At least this solves my "its too similar to Bottas" complain

Not the same hat he was holding this morning. That had a white top. 

Ricciardo's helmet is a Kobe Bryant tribute apparently.

At least this solves my "its too similar to Bottas" complain

Good change, white top was a bit boring. Visor strip also changed to black. Wonder if that might end up being purple too.

Edited by SirT, 19 February 2020 - 15:08.

If I were Hamilton, I'd respond to Ricciardo's tweet with

"Ah, so your helmet is a tribute to someone famous who died recently? Really cute Daniel. Really. Original too..."

If I were Hamilton, I'd respond to Ricciardo's tweet with

 

"Ah, so your helmet is a tribute to someone famous who died recently? Really cute Daniel. Really. Original too..."

 

Recently died? Kpbe died a few weeks ago, MJ has been dead since 2009, Hamilton had this helmet in 2013...

Recently died? Kpbe died a few weeks ago, MJ has been dead since 2009, Hamilton had this helmet in 2013...

OK. Then:

"Ah, so your helmet is a tribute to someone famous who died within this decade? Really cute Daniel. Really. Original too..."

OK. Then:

 

"Ah, so your helmet is a tribute to someone famous who died within this decade? Really cute Daniel. Really. Original too..."

Yeah...Lewis should absolutely write that...

I think RIC missed the mark with his comments, a Kobe Bryant tribute was as unoriginal as it can be right now. I know it's a helmet for testing, but still...

My point exactly. Much ado about nothing.

I think you'll find he was taking the piss.

My point exactly. Much ado about nothing.

Not going to drag this any further because it got way more exposure it should have, but when I referred to the tribute thing, I wasn't slamming the initiative itself, but the way Ricciardo had bragged about how his helmet was going to be something completely different and original from the rest of the pack:
 

I love everyone releasing their new helmet for this year. Really cute guys. Really. Original too.. Don’t worry, I’ll save the day.

In your own words – and examples – tribute helmets aren't exactly breaking new ground, which is why I brought up Hamilton's MJ lid (I tried to pick one that wasn't F1-related to provide a more accurate comparison to DR's Bryant tribute). And in Ricciardo's own words, he was in a way "making a fuss about it".

But enough about this subject. If I offended anyone by it, it was clearly not my intention, so please accept my apology if you thought my post was inadequate.

Well, Ricciardo didn't make a fuss about it. You did. In a horrible and totally not funny kind of way. As if tribute helmets weren't used before.

Ericssons tribute to Peterson:


Kimi to Hunt:


Hamilton to Lauda:


Bottas to Hakkinen:

Is Lewis' a Kobe tribute as well, by chance?

Ricciardo's current helmet is such a non-design I almost wonder if it's a pisstake. 

Any picture of Kimi's new helmet?

Boggles the mind how much better those tribute "old style" helmet designs are than the current cesspool of spikes and shrapnel.

Boggles the mind how much better those tribute "old style" helmet designs are than the current cesspool of spikes and shrapnel.