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Wizzie wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Image
De Stormtrooper


Is that Mario Andretti's helmet by any chance?


Mario Andretti used this helmet model, at least in 1979:

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But you can clearly see that, being the helmet white, it's Elio de Angelis.

The helmet model is called Simpson Bandit, BTW.
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kostas22 wrote:Image
De Stormtrooper


Makes me think he might be advertising TOWIE... :oops:
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dr-baker wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Image
De Stormtrooper


Makes me think he might be advertising TOWIE... :oops:

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dr-baker wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Image
De Stormtrooper


Makes me think he might be advertising TOWIE... :oops:


*Gunshot*

I hoped one of my threads would never get such an awful reference!
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I'm from south Essex, from the very region that many of those people are from. I know NOBODY who likes that programme. Not one. I have not even watched 1 second of that show.
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Can someone explain to me just what is TOWIE? :?
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TOWIE stands for The Only Way Is Essex, a TV show in Britain that documents the tawdry lives of tarts in the English county of (surprise, surprise) Essex. Wikipedia/Google it.

And by tarts, I do not mean the foodstuff...
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Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:My favourite is Alex Wurz's:
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Alex Wurz paints his helmets on his own. :) He's currently doing a "making of" on Twitter posting some progress every once in a while.
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Bleu wrote:I have nothing against him as a driver, but don't like him changing helmet.

I don't think anybody likes that, I think he should have sticked with the one he used in Monaco, pretty much the only helmet he's used that i've liked:
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Though my favourite ever is probably Kimi's helmet in his last season with Mclaren:
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Another good helmet design:
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Getting Papayas ready.

(Or is HWNSNBM's N allowed to be seen in pictures)
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stupot94 wrote:Getting Papayas ready.

(Or is HWNSNBM's N allowed to be seen in pictures)

I think he could be seen... but there's his name on the helmet, so he should throw papayas on himself!
:o :o :o

Another helmet design that I like:
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Can't believe Jean Alesi's chromed sliver helmet from Monaco 1998 onwards hasn't been mentioned yet. It looked extra special in the stunning blue livery of the 2000 prost car. Shame that car usually broke down before anyone got to admire it.

Sorry I'm awful at posting photos here, but on his Wikipedia page there are some photos there. Here's the link; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alesi
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ibsey wrote:Can't believe Jean Alesi's chromed sliver helmet from Monaco 1998 onwards hasn't been mentioned yet. It looked extra special in the stunning blue livery of the 2000 prost car. Shame that car usually broke down before anyone got to admire it.

Sorry I'm awful at posting photos here, but on his Wikipedia page there are some photos there. Here's the link; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alesi


Speaking of Jean, I honestly didn't know that he drove in Le Mans in 1989 until today :shock:
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Wizzie wrote:
ibsey wrote:Can't believe Jean Alesi's chromed sliver helmet from Monaco 1998 onwards hasn't been mentioned yet. It looked extra special in the stunning blue livery of the 2000 prost car. Shame that car usually broke down before anyone got to admire it.

Sorry I'm awful at posting photos here, but on his Wikipedia page there are some photos there. Here's the link; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alesi


Speaking of Jean, I honestly didn't know that he drove in Le Mans in 1989 until today :shock:


Do you mean an F3000 race at Le Mans?

There's short highlights of that race on utube. Here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1BxXy81hqE

The field includes such great F1 names including Eric Bernard / Comas / Van Der Poele / Marco Apicella / Claudio Langes / JJ Lehto / Andrea Chiesa & more. Real Gold mine for F1 rejects those races.
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ibsey wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
ibsey wrote:Can't believe Jean Alesi's chromed sliver helmet from Monaco 1998 onwards hasn't been mentioned yet. It looked extra special in the stunning blue livery of the 2000 prost car. Shame that car usually broke down before anyone got to admire it.

Sorry I'm awful at posting photos here, but on his Wikipedia page there are some photos there. Here's the link; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alesi


Speaking of Jean, I honestly didn't know that he drove in Le Mans in 1989 until today :shock:


Do you mean an F3000 race at Le Mans?

There's short highlights of that race on utube. Here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1BxXy81hqE

The field includes such great F1 names including Eric Bernard / Comas / Van Der Poele / Marco Apicella / Claudio Langes / JJ Lehto / Andrea Chiesa & more. Real Gold mine for F1 rejects those races.


No. I mean the Granddaddy of them all; the Le Mans 24H.
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Wizzie wrote:No. I mean the Granddaddy of them all; the Le Mans 24H.



:shock: :shock: :shock:

Wow I honestly didn't know that either & I've been an avid Alesi fan for years. As they say, you learn something new everyday.
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Couple of other great helmet designs IMO.

1. Ronnie Peterson; I'm sure you all know what this looks like, but his a link to a photo just in case; http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=ronnie ... 29,r:9,s:0

Ronnie's helmet was nice & simple, yet easily recognisable. For me just the sight of his helmet in the JPS livery Lotus just oozes racing passion & fond memories of sideways F1 motoring. Ronnie style. Also loved the lip above his visor, looks real cool.

Similarly I think Emerson Fittipaldi's helmet also looks especially good in the JPS Lotus (although to a lesser extend than with Ronnie Peterson). Here's a photo of it also.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=emerso ... ,r:17,s:16
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My all-time favourite design is:

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By the way I am a helmet designer, so helmets mean a lot for me. If you are interested, please take a look at my works, thank you :)
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Cool, you should see if you could get HWNSNBM on your books!

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I love James Hunt's helmet, although maybe RUSH is making me biased?


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But I also have to do a shameless plug for my own brain-bucket, a Christmas gift from the wife, playing off of the old American Racing color scheme. It's a vinyl, not painted though, she doesn't have that kind of money lol.

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Neo3 wrote:By the way I am a helmet designer, so helmets mean a lot for me. If you are interested, please take a look at my works, thank you :)
http://www.barthdesigns.hu


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Thanks, Shizuka :) Köszönöm!
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I like this one:

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