A brand new, limited edition coffee table book – Formula Helmet – chronicles 18 Formula 1 drivers between 1969 and 1999 by examining their helmet designs and offering facts, anecdotes and background behind the designs and the drivers who wore them.
I’ve always adored helmets and, in truth, they were what first attracted me to motorsport. My earliest F1 t-shirts were of individual or whole field helmet designs and, like many connoisseurs, I’ve not been thrilled by the move to overly busy designs in recent years.
Unwrapping Formula Helmet from its packaging was the most excited I’ve been about a book in some time, and well… I don’t know.
On the plus side, it features endless gratuitous, luscious shots of F1 driver helmets from the 1970s-1990s, together with interviews and insights from helmet manufacturers, livery designers and drivers. Open the book on any given page and, provided you’re a fan of motorsport helmets – and not, say, lawn bowls – there will be…