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115 comments on 2012 F1 driver helmets in pictures

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   jagolevert (@jagolevert) said on 12th March 2012, 13:14

   Phwoarrrr, there are some cracking helmets this year! I’m particularly fond of Kamui’s and Dani’s, gorgeous designs! I miss Custards lid, I always thought that was pretty dandy.

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   dam00r (@dam00r) said on 12th March 2012, 13:17

   Kimi, Kovalainen and N.Karthikeyan has in my opinion the best looking helmets.

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   Tango (@tango) said on 12th March 2012, 13:18

   I actually like recognising someone by his helmet. So I’d give two thumbs up for Mercedes, Mc Laren, Lotus, FI who have drivers who choose very different designs. I have no idea how to know who is who between Vergne and Ricciardo.

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     Enigma (@enigma) said on 12th March 2012, 13:34

     The thing on the very top of the car (the English word for it escapes me) is in red for the first driver and in yellow for the second driver. Vettel, Button, Alonso and Schumacher, for example, have it red, whereas their team-mates have it yellow. @tango

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       Tango (@tango) said on 12th March 2012, 16:17

       Of course @enigma , but the helmet is actually easier to spot on low def (and who is driver number 1 at Merc ? at Mc Laren? I’m a fanatic but I’m not always sure. I do know Shumi has the red helmet and Ham the dark yellow one.)

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         Enigma (@enigma) said on 12th March 2012, 16:30

         It’s by car numbers – at all teams it’s the driver that was higher in last year’s championships that has the red colour. The only exception is Mercedes. Lotus, with 2 drivers that didn’t run last year, has Kimi as #1.

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   Cyclops_PL (@cyclops_pl) said on 12th March 2012, 13:21

   I like Lotus guys’ helmets the most, especially Kimi’s. Whereas Rosberg’s is the most unexciting helmet I’ve seen in recent years. Pedro’s is in a class of its own. One hideous piece of head-wear.

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   Mallesh Magdum (@malleshmagdum) said on 12th March 2012, 13:24

   Mark Webber will launch a new helmet at the Australian GP

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   ed24f1 (@ed24f1) said on 12th March 2012, 13:24

   It’s nice to see de la Rosa’s design stay the same, one of the few drivers these days who has maintained the same design for most of his career.

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     Enigma (@enigma) said on 12th March 2012, 13:36

     @ed24f1 Yep – not my favourite but I appreciate the simplicity and the fact he hasn’t changed it.

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   MW (@mw) said on 12th March 2012, 13:40

   Brunos is best for me.. Although I can’t tell if that was a cool design before his uncle drove in it or not..
   Still, it’s got the most signifigance and character.

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   AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 12th March 2012, 13:43

   Hulkenberg’s is pretty dull.

   Clos’ is quite nice, different. Shame we won’t see much of it.

   I like Raikkonen’s, Button’s (nice use of his initials), Kovalainen’s and Petrov’s.

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     Leggacy said on 12th March 2012, 19:37

     I quite like hulkenberg’s reminds me of the Rfactor logo

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   GeeMac (@geemac) said on 12th March 2012, 13:46

   Raikkonen, Kovalainen and Alonso’s lids are all great looking. If it was me I’d remove the “9″ from the side of Raikkonen’s, but that’s just me. I do like the simplcity of Hamilton and de la Rosa’s, I’d rather have those than some of the insanely busy designs that a few drivers have (Glock and Maldonado being particularly guilty of this).

   The only thing we can be sure of for this coming season is that Vettel will not finish the season with the same design he started it with! :)

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    Jonathan said on 12th March 2012, 14:05

    Some nice helmets there!

    I really think there should be regulations to restrict major helmet design changes during the season…

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      JC said on 12th March 2012, 14:26

      Not to me. But I suppose that’s because I pay a lot of attention to the STR guys as a Ricciardo fan. All you see on Ricciardo’s is mostly blue and a bit of silver at the top. Vergne’s is mostly silver with a bit of orange.

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        JC said on 12th March 2012, 14:28

        Oops, meant to reply to the comment below. Sorry!

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      aka_robyn (@aka_robyn) said on 12th March 2012, 17:44

      I really think there should be regulations to restrict major helmet design changes during the season…

      Why?

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    HUHHII (@huhhii) said on 12th March 2012, 14:13

    It’ll be very difficult to differentiate Toro Rosso drivers. Their helmets are pretty much identical!

    Kovalainen has again the coolest helmet. I’m also liking Perez’s and Hülkenberg’s newly designed helmets.

    Sadly Kimi’s helmet is not that good. It would look better if he’d be driving for McLaren, but for Lotus the colors just don’t match at all.

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    Luigi Carneiro said on 12th March 2012, 14:30

    Problem with most of them is that they are very generic. Most of the new drivers just have the hemet companies create the designs. One of the cool things about helmets is that it expresses the drivers identity. What is more emblematic than Mansell, Prost, Hill, Senna, Massa or Piquet designs. I bet the mere mention of their names make anyone have the image of their helmets in their mind. Now mention Liuzzi, Vettel, Kobayashi, Kimi, and etc and what comes to your mind? Just a bunch of mixed colors and lines and curves. Looks great but means nothing.

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    andae23 (@andae23) said on 12th March 2012, 14:41

    I love Räikkönen’s and Clos’ the most: the white thing on Räikkönen’s helmet looks very cool (ice-ish I would say), but Clos’ red and white pattern is by far the prettiest (by the way, bonus points for putting a dragon on your helmet!).

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    Rahim.RG (@rahim-rg) said on 12th March 2012, 14:53

    Raikkonen’s Helmet designs are the best…though i’d say this year’s is abit empty…but still i think its the best…

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    carbon_fibre said on 12th March 2012, 15:00

    Wow! I like almost all of them! A big improvement than last year ,for sure.
    Vettel’s helmet is surprisingly nice and Button’s is even better than last years.
    The best one for me ,though, is Massa’s as it features my two favourite colours (green and blue).Also, does anybody know what is up with that snake-like sticker at the bottom left of his helmet?

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      HUHHII (@huhhii) said on 12th March 2012, 15:22

      To me it looks like a dragon. And in Chinese calendar 2012 is Year of the Dragon. Could that be the reason?

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      Dan (@danb) said on 12th March 2012, 16:21

      Apart from the ‘Aigo’ logo now absent from the front, Jenson’s design is exactly the same as last year.

      Personally, I prefer his ‘classic’ design that he used from 2000-2010.

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        Adrian J said on 14th March 2012, 0:59

        2000-2010 apart from 2009…

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