Lewis or Nick Hamilton Helmet

[Marbot]

Originally Posted by Adam43

Perhaps a nice elephant grey. With a trunk.

Don't forget the ears.

[RF_Racer]

Originally Posted by ptclaus98

Actually, I quite like some of Vettel's lids. The Finns, Kobayashi, Heidfeld, Button, and Schumacher have some quality lids. The rest look like someone puked day-glo colors on it, and sent them off. Personally, the "new guard" of American drivers and the Australasian IndyCar drivers have absolute top quality lids.

Thats probably because they are painted by the same person\company that does lewis's

[Chatters]

This is probably the best lid I've ever seen.

[Marbot]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

Because it's yellow?

We know it's yellow because it helped his father spot him more easily in races when he was karting. Not so difficult to spot now.

It's a nice distinctive design, but nothing special.

[medius]

Originally Posted by Ralf's Girl

I was the same, but with Damon Hill's - now that was a fantastic helmet design, one with history and meaning. I hate Vettel's habit of changing his design every race or two. And none of them even look good!

(On the original topic, I prefer Lewis's helmet to his brother's.)

Josh Hill carries on his father and grandfather's design.

[Knowlesy]

It seems the universal standard nowadays, when copying a design, is to make it blue. How strange.

[Ralf's Girl]

Excuse my pedantry, but the colours of the London Rowing Club, which Graham Hill's original helmet design was based on, are actually dark blue with white tabs, so blue is precisely right for Josh Hill's helmet.

(Okay, fit of nitpicking over.)

[strider]

Originally Posted by Super Hans

I agree. I don't really have an interest in helmets anymore. This may because they're all a bit garish and cluttered nowadays, or because I've just grown out of it - I used to draw Mansell and Senna's lids all over my schoolbooks.

I liked Mika's as well. Very distinctive.

[Knowlesy]

Originally Posted by Ralf's Girl

Excuse my pedantry, but the colours of the London Rowing Club, which Graham Hill's original helmet design was based on, are actually dark blue with white tabs, so blue is precisely right for Josh Hill's helmet.

(Okay, fit of nitpicking over.)

I thought it was a really dark blue, almost black? I confess I am not so sure. And the light is probably exaggerating that in the photos.

It is still a class helmet all the same.

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

Vettel is by far the worst as he has this thing where he changes the design every week, seemingly getting progressively worse with each iteration.

I personally thought that the helmet he wore when he won the title was great.

[Ralf's Girl]

Well at least that one isn't designed like a can of Red Bull.

[Knowlesy]

I thought that was the worst of the lot!

[Wims]

I dont like the yellow helmet much at all, so I'd have to go for the blue one

[Mekola]

Nick Hamilton's helmet reminds me somehow this of Jarno Trulli. Mostly with that blue background.

[runshaw]

This is the most pointless thread i've ever read on ten-tenths. First off, who cares? Second, it doesn't matter.

Lewis designed Nick's helmet, but he just swapped the yellow and blue around. And thats it. Really, thats it.

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by runshaw

This is the most pointless thread i've ever read on ten-tenths. First off, who cares? Second, it doesn't matter.

Lewis designed Nick's helmet, but he just swapped the yellow and blue around. And thats it. Really, thats it.

First off, you obviously care enough to post on this thread, and secondly it matters so much that the thread has reached the 40+ post mark.

[Marbot]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

First off, you obviously care enough to post on this thread, and secondly it matters so much that the thread has reached the 40+ post mark.

It certainly seems to be the most popular thread at the moment.

[strider]

It's one of those threads that make me long for the next race.

[The Snout]

The usual it's not as good as yesterday drivel.

[ensign14]

Used to be easy to have a mental picture of helmets. Senna's yellow with blue and green band, Lauda's red with stylized Lauda Air "L", Prost's abstract blue arrow and so on.

Nowadays it looks like a driver has sat in a windtunnel whilst being blasted with paintballs by Stevie Wonder. With a mile long flock of geese overhead.

No taste, no intelligence, no thought, nothing.

Of the current designs, if one can apply that word, there are few worthy of consideration. Kekinho's, perhaps.

[Knowlesy]

Schuey used to have a really nice one. But he fell for the Marlboro bucks in 2000... oh, sorry, no, it was because people were mistaking him for Barrichello.

I expected him to change it back to the old design if he ever left Ferrari, but I guess he didn't want to alter the 'brand' anymore.

[Vettel in a Williams]

My 2 favourite Helmets....





And I prefer Nick's helmet over Lewis'

[Bononi]

I can't quite remember the last one...

[Vettel in a Williams]

Originally Posted by Bononi

I can't quite remember the last one...

The 2nd helmet belongs to Jacques Villeneuve

[ptclaus98]

Originally Posted by ensign14

Used to be easy to have a mental picture of helmets. Senna's yellow with blue and green band, Lauda's red with stylized Lauda Air "L", Prost's abstract blue arrow and so on.

Nowadays it looks like a driver has sat in a windtunnel whilst being blasted with paintballs by Stevie Wonder. With a mile long flock of geese overhead.

No taste, no intelligence, no thought, nothing.

Of the current designs, if one can apply that word, there are few worthy of consideration. Kekinho's, perhaps.

So wait, are you trying to say that the guys who came up with random blocks and stripes that occasionally formed the letter of their first names or interpretations of their country's flag were in fact some kind of post modern minimalist geniuses?



Come on, some of you are being absolutely ridiculous. It's okay to think they're ugly, and that they're a bit garish. But no intelligence? Thought? You have to be kidding me. Vettel's Red Bull Can lid was brilliance. Most of you ***** about drivers helmets being cluttered by sponsorship and that ruining the design. That was a clever way to get around that.