Helmets: Norris’s lion returns, Vettel goes chrome, Giovinazzi and Russell celebrate Italy

2020 Italian Grand Prix drivers' helmets

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Lando Norris, Antonio Giovinazzi and George Russell have revealed special helmet designs for this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.

Antonio Giovinazzi

Giovinazzi, the only Italian driver in Formula 1, added a tribute to his home country to his helmet.

“If you know her, you can’t not fall in love with her. If you’re far away, you miss her. If you were born there, you can’t help it. Long live Italy,” he wrote on social media.

George Russell

Russell has incorporated the colours of the Italian tricolour onto his helmet. He has also added track maps for Monza and Mugello. The latter will hold its first ever Formula 1 race next week.

Lando Norris

Lando Norris 2020 Italian Grand Prix helmet
Lando Norris 2020 Italian Grand Prix helmet

Norris’s helmet design for this weekend celebrates one of Italy’s many famous culinary exports: Pizza.

The top of the helmet also features the return of the Flemish Lion motif. At Spa-Francorchamps last week Norris brought a special helmet design which featured the lion prominently, but decided against using it after learning it could be interpreted as a “political statement” which “would have offended many people in Belgium”.

Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel 2020 Italian Grand Prix helmet
Sebastian Vettel 2020 Italian Grand Prix helmet

Vettel has updated his usual helmet design with a chrome effect for his final race at Monza as a Ferrari driver.

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5 comments on “Helmets: Norris’s lion returns, Vettel goes chrome, Giovinazzi and Russell celebrate Italy”

  1. I’m saddened that the Giovinazzi helmet wasn’t Russells and that it wasn’t Clare Williams atop it. Would have been a nice, if creepy homage.

    1. I’m not sure it can be both creepy and nice?

  2. Was I the only one thinking that Russell’s helmet was Gios and vice versa?

  3. PIZZA PIZZA ! HUZZAH!
    and gio needs to keep that very cool lid

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