Video: Vettel’s Singapore 2012 helmet with flashing LEDs
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Sebastian Vettel was wearing a special helmet with flashing LEDs on top during practice at Singapore today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrR0I7Tjb6c
Apparently the lights arrangement on top is different constellations of stars.
Ted Kravitz said on Sky that they are the constellations attached to his siblings & parents’ birth dates. Awww…
I love this helmet… is really cool and nice tip about the constellations @damonsmedley
Wouldn’t it be slightly distracting if that was flashing in your mirrors? You’d almost expect a siren to accompany it.
Well, I am impressed! I was scathing of the “helmet to mark yet another helmet design design” of the other week – a self-importance piece of ego-feeding.
However this one is just excellent! Top marks to Vettel!
An aside – I wonder how this works with respect to the structure of the helmet? (Or indeed driver safety etc., has been noted above the distraction of it!)
I’m kind of stunned – I wonder how it looks on the racetrack. wrt the structure and safety, the LED’s, battery, and wiring are probably pretty tiny, so it could just sit on top of the outer functional layer, and it wouldn’t be too expensive to crash-test the whole set-up. I think I read that the diamond helmets were for show only, because to use it in a race, they would have to be strength tested diamonds and all.
That’s awesome. People knock Vettel for his antics, all the helmet designs, the dreaded finger, but at least he feels comfortable enough to show off his personality. It adds a bit of character and light hearted fun to the series. Plus LEDs are just cool. They are already set to be the future of every conceivable type of lighting, but for someone to stick em on a helmet is definitely inspired.
From what I saw in FP2, the LEDs are on top of the helmet and then the top design is a layer of vinyl (or similar) which goes over the top of the LEDs. The top of the helmet was bumpy so this clearly has no effect at all on the structural rigidity.
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