Nostalgia adorns the world champion helmet
05/25/2013
Three-time world champion Sebastian Vettel changes his helmet design from race to race. When helmet design began tentatively in the early sixties (Ricardo Rodriguez drove with the Ferrari horse on his yellow shell in 1961 and Count Berghe von Trips always wore the Scuderia Colonia crest), drivers usually remained faithful to one helmet design throughout their entire career.
The classic helmet designs of Siffert, Hill, Stewart, Fittipaldi, Pace, Villeneuve etc. are legendary! Even today, they are instantly recognizable in every photo.
With the drivers of the modern era, this recognition is becoming increasingly difficult. The starting numbers on the cars are getting smaller and smaller and are giving way to large sponsor inscriptions. In just a few years, you will have to do intensive research to be able to identify a particular driver.
And for generations to come, guessing drivers' names could even become a "bet that" number. And perhaps only a fan with exceptional talent will be able to correctly identify the helmets of the drivers in the new millennium.
At least Vettel will be reviving nostalgia with his helmet next Sunday and showing various motifs from the 1960 Monaco GP, when Stirling Moss won the race in the Lotus 18, as he did the following year.
