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[Marklar]

Sneak peek of Vandoorne's 2017 helmet

 

 

Also, Lewis Hamilton will, as it seems, race in 2017 with a fan designed helmet, you can stil tak part until tomorrow if you want to

 

Edit: And Grosjean

 

Edited by Marklar, 05 February 2017 - 15:49.

[ConsiderAndGo]

Blimey, Grojeans' lid is absolutely heinous!!!

[TheHoneyBadger3]

Blimey, Grojeans' lid is absolutely heinous!!!

Just as it is every year.

I hope mclaren drop the sponsorless halo from the drivers helmets.

[kimister]

Blimey, Grojeans' lid is absolutely heinous!!!

 

I liked the blue, but for the rest..I agree with you.

[messy]

Grosjean's one of more and more drivers in F1 these days who have no 'helmet identity' at all.

Ultimate example being Vettel for changing it all the time, then going pretty plain when he wasn't allowed to anymore.

[DutchQuicksilver]

Grosjean got inspired by Mozilla's colours?

[Lord_Shaitan]

Grosjean's one of more and more drivers in F1 these days who have no 'helmet identity' at all.

Ultimate example being Vettel for changing it all the time, then going pretty plain when he wasn't allowed to anymore.

Really? I am more than sure, that  90%+ users would say it's Grosjean's helmet, when seeing it without logos, number, texts, etc, and only with colors and pattern scheme.

[muramasa]

　

Stoffel's and Pascal's will be very similar in terms of overall impression if they stay with roughly same design as 2016

[RedBaron]

I hope mclaren drop the sponsorless halo from the drivers helmets.

 

[ensign14]

Really? I am more than sure, that  90%+ users would say it's Grosjean's helmet, when seeing it without logos, number, texts, etc, and only with colors and pattern scheme.

 

I wouldn't have a clue.  What is the design?  Blue with yellow sevens?  I'd've put that down as Kimi's were it not for the brighter colours.

 

Compare with back-of-grid drivers like - just picking at random - Silvio Moser (green with white diamonds), Jo Vonlanthen (white with red kamikaze stripe edged in black), Jim Crawford (black with red Mohican trimmed in white) and Siegfried Stohr (like Beltoise's but in red and white). 

 

Pretty much every driver from the seventies to the nineties had a helmet design that was easily distinguishable and fairly easy to describe, or at least draw. 

 

These days?  Hardly.  Vettel's is the only real design that is simple to understand and describe, Palmer's is not far off.  Maybe Magnussen's.
 

[Boutsen]

I'm afraid not.  Vandoorne posted a larger pic of his helmet on IG yesterday and it clearly had the white halo.

[Maustinsj]

Could you post a pic of this? I can't find it. All I can find is a close up of the number 2. He posted another picture before of his whole helmet but that was one from his race in 2016, numbered 47.

[Boutsen]

It was one of those pics that goes away after 24 hours (no idea how to get hold of it, being the IT-iliterate I am).  It's basically the same picture as the one at the top of this thread, but you could see a bigger part of the white halo.

[Marklar]

[TheHoneyBadger3]

Switched to bell it seems

[muramasa]

no red for top view, red bits of spanish flag shud be seen but no reds

possible significant change to overall design/impression?

[RECKLESS]

Looks Swedish.

[thegamer23]

Ericsson vibes

[SpaceGhost]

What is the most used colour for helmets? I presume its between Red and Blue. 

[RainyAfterlifeDaylight]

I guess Fernando's helmet is not going to have orange color thanks to highly anticipated use of orange color for the new McLaren car livery.

Edited by RainyAfterlifeDaylight, 14 February 2017 - 14:18.

[Frankbullitt]

I would say there will be more red/orange on the side.

 

I would say both McLaren drivers will use Bell also.

[Frankbullitt]

 

Sainz Jr with 2kgs strapped to his helmet for training. Its also a Stilo lid and not the Arai he used last year.

[highdownforce]

Nasr and Bottas raced with Stilos, any other driver besides Sainz Jr. ?

Edited by highdownforce, 15 February 2017 - 01:17.

[DaiMOn]

I highly doubt he's going to use Stilo this year. That helmet is just a special one for training purposes. It's an older Stilo model optimized for touring car/NASCAR racing. You're not even allowed to use it in open wheeler cars because it is not approved by the FIA.

My guess is he will stick with Arai, and with the same design he used in the last two years.

The Stilo ST5 has been used by Bottas, Palmer and Nasr last year but I wouldn't be surprised if Valtteri switches to Bell as well for 2017.

[August]

Edit: And Grosjean

I think this has some nice idea and is an improvement to his previous ones, yet would need simplification. Concentrate on how the helmet looks like from the far away, not how the details look like from close.

[Peat]

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Sainz Jr with 2kgs strapped to his helmet for training. Its also a Stilo lid and not the Arai he used last year.

What's he training for, spine damage?

[andrea303]

What's he training for, spine damage?

 

This year all drivers are facing the heaviest lateral G-forces they have ever experienced in a F1 car.

[August]

Joey Logano's helmet:

 

 

Too bad that's in NASCAR where you don't really get to see the helmets that often. Yeah, it looks like that because of the Shell sponsorhip for the #22. But still, that's the sort of a helmet design I'd like to see more often. A simple, easily recognizable design with some details.

[RECKLESS]

That's awesome!

[Alburaq]

[Graveltrappen]

Superb. We'd never see something like that in F1 which is a shame.

[Graveltrappen]

Blimey, Grojeans' lid is absolutely heinous!!!

Looks like a generic helmet that you'd find on an F1 computer game

[Laura23]

Superb. We'd never see something like that in F1 which is a shame.

 

Vettel had a rust coloured lid a few years ago during his Red Bull days.

[Alburaq]

The "ancient history" bronze helmet? one of his few cool and interesting helmets. http://www.f1fanatic...ona-2014-14.jpg
His Monaco pinup and Stratos helmets were cool too

[Graveltrappen]

Not a full time helmet though.

I'm sure Sutil had a faux leather one too

[Graveltrappen]

[Peat]

This year all drivers are facing the heaviest lateral G-forces they have ever experienced in a F1 car.

 Blimey. Dry.

I meant that if he crashes the kart, he's got a helmet that weights much more than it should. He could ingure himself badly. The reason helmets are developed to be as light as possible is to reduce the G factor in the event of a crash.

[bogdan27]

Alonso officially using a Bell helmet.

Edited by bogdan27, 19 February 2017 - 16:22.

[Marklar]

Like Alonso, Vandoorne switches to Bell

[FullOppositeLock]

I quite like that. Very distinguishable.

 

In other news, Max will present his new helmet today, followed by Dan tomorrow.

[Marklar]

I quite like that. Very distinguishable.
 
In other news, Max will present his new helmet today, followed by Dan tomorrow.

Max Verstappen ‏@Max33Verstappen  12s
Happy with my new helmet for 2017. Check out my app for more pictures and a video: http://www.verstappen.nl/en/apps/ 

 
Edit: https://twitter.com/...009796563042304

Edited by Marklar, 21 February 2017 - 12:07.

[muramasa]

looks like Kvyat's

[EightGear]

https://twitter.com/...009796563042304

 

No more orange.

[phrank]

Looks like Verstappen's helmet is completely taken over by Red Bull, almost not own design and only Red Bull colors also. (Wait for the pics from the side)

[Marklar]

Looks like Verstappen's helmet is completely taken over by Red Bull, almost not own design and only Red Bull colors also. (Wait for the pics from the side)

[phrank]

[thegamer23]

I quite like it. Red Bull helmets are hardly distinctive, but the top is something different at least

Loved the orange tho

Edited by thegamer23, 21 February 2017 - 12:21.

[FullOppositeLock]

Meh. Didn't have him down as a corporate man

Edited by FullOppositeLock, 21 February 2017 - 12:23.

[rjsports]

Red Bull helmet design reveals might be the dullest thing of the year, you already know how 90% of the helmet will look like.

[Marklar]

Except of the orange part on the top it is basically the Red Bull livery 

 

More pics

 

 

Lewis Hamilton will present his helmet design (from the fan competition) tomorrow. These were the runner-ups.

Edited by Marklar, 21 February 2017 - 12:30.