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They talked more on the lines of the most "Iconic" liveries. I feel like in terms of design. Alot of drivers had nice liveries that weren't necessarily iconic. Kimi's standard McLaren Helmet was nice but the Monaco 2005 and 2006 versions were badass. Alonso's McLaren helmet in 07. Robsergs German themed "VI" Mercedes helmet from 2014. Jenson Button's Japanese themed helmets he'd wear at Suzuka. Vettel's Singapore helmets for 2012, 2013, 2017. Hamilton's golden/colorful Abu Dhabi helmet 2017, red Michael Jackson COTA 2013 helmet, and random ass blue Maylasia helmet 2015...and the list can go on and on. They dropped the ball here. Could have been a nice video to discuss alot of badass helmets that drivers have worn and one-offs, etc that many ppl dont remember, have never seen, or have forgotten over time. But instead we got the typical "Senna/James Hunt, etc helmet was so iconic" conversation we've all heard a thousand and 22 times.

I think Hakkinen and Coulthard both deserved a mention. Simple yet classic designs that were instantly recognizable.

Change the video title to - The helmets our favourite drivers of each decade wore - would be more accurate.

The disrespect to Kimi, his helmets were beautiful. And visually, one of Vettel’s many helmets has got to be in there, some were out of this world.

Come on, Seb's matte white with the German flag stripes on

In my opinion the best by decade are: 60s Jack Brabham 70s Francois Cevert 80s Niki Lauda (McLaren) 90s Ayrton Senna 00s Fernando Alonso 10s Vettel (Ferrari)

I loved some of Vettel’s helmets back in his Red Bull days.

Hulkenburg helmet is sick asf😍🔥

Senna's helmet + McLaren Marlboro = the definition of speed.

Senna's yellow helmet was so iconic and best ever for me. I really like raikkonen's helmet with F2008 was best much ever for me.

Guy on the right actually goes by the design. Dude on the left and the host is all about how iconic the helmet is lmao

Sebastian Vettel current helmet 👍❤️

These answer are not favourite colours or designs but who’s wearing them!!! Danny RIC’s 2019 helmet is best cos none of the sponsors rings are all over it & it’s colours break up nice out of shape design & great colours to Every design u picked followed the same design philosophy 👎

I agree that Senna's helmet design is the best. It's simple, yet just so iconic, it won't do justice not to remember.

*shows vettel’s amazing helmet that is the best looking helmet compared to what they discussed* *proceeds to name helmets that resemble old helmets*

60s: Jackie Stewart 70s: James Hunt 80s: Niki Lauda 90s: Ayrton Senna 00s: Anthony Davidson 10s: Fernando Alonso

1970s- Hunt 1980s- Senna 1990s- Mika 2000s- Hamilton 2010s- Vettel All Time Ayrton Senna

F1 did a pole on this years best design and Ricciardo was the first place.

Shout outs to De Angelis and then Alesi’s chrome version!

I loved Sebastian Vettel 2012 Singapore helmet it was amazing to see it light up at night

Shame they did'nt talk about David Coulthard 's helmet...😕

All the brazilian classic liveries were created by the same man, Sid Mosca

Lando's helmets are amazing!! I really liked this year's Suzuka one🧡

For me some iconic and good helmets of the era are the Kubica's helmet in sauber, the Massa's Helmet , the Riccardo's helmet in Renault and the Vettel's strange helmets in Red Bull

I love charles leclerc helmet so much

1. Schumacher 2000 2. Hakkinen 1999 3. Lauda 1976 4. Raikkonen 2005 6. Coulthard 2000 7. Hill 1994 8. Senna 1988 9. Vettel Monaco 2014 10. Alesi 1995

I could've genuinely listened to this conversation for an hour or more

I love sennas it’s so iconic

A bunch of Helmets - discussing Helmets...

1. Fernando's Blue Helmet with 14 on top 2. Vettel's light up Helmet 3. Hamilton's present Helmet looking like Rey Mysetrio's Mask 4. Ricciardo's Cake Helmet 5. Vettel's German Stripe Helmet 6. Hamilton's Senna Tribute Helmet 7. Lando Norris Mexican GP Helmet 8. Romain Grosjean US GP Helmet 9. Michael Schumacher Red Helmet 10. Kimi James Hunt Tribute Helmet NOTE: I didn't put Senna's cause we already know its the top one.

Senna had the most iconic helmet in F1 period.

Notable mentions for Frentzen, Gilles Villeneuve & Montoya

Best design and most iconic are two COMPLETELY different measures. A lot of past iconic lids are pretty uninspiring if it wasn't for the person underneath them. Senna, Hill are prime examples.

Speaking from a contest of designs, colors and brands..Senna'a 1991 Rehos and 1993 SHoei were Beautiful. Nico Rosberg's Black and Green Monster schuberth, Felip Massa's schuberth, Rowland's Bell, Alex Wurz's Bieffe.

Didn't know the word liveries before, thanks for the info.

The 1950s don't count? There was one driver with a distinctive helmet design in the 1950s. Indeed, he had a nickname based on his helmet design. It was "Chequered Helmet" himself, Jean Behra.

Graphics, colour and designs are something that drew me to motorsport as a kid and is likely what drew me to graphic design as a career. I even worked at a place that designed custom decal kits/graphics for MX bikes in part of my career. I still love seeing new designs, liveries on racing cars. It is part of what makes motorsport great. Australian V8 Supercars do an annual "retro round" where for one race of the year they can re-create an iconic car livery for their cars as a once off livery but incorporate their current sponsors into that iconic design. Teams wear retro outfits/helmets/racewear and it creates awesome exposure for the team sponsors. I'd love to see something like this for Formula 1 (perhaps at one of the more historic circuits) once a year.

Francois Cevert's has always been my favourite, striking but so simple.

100. Vettel 2013 Brazil 99. Vettel Japan 2011 ... XD 1. Vettel Singapore 2012

surely Graham and Damon Hill have a more iconic design than Stewart. the only father and son combo with same design to win WDC.

My picks (not that anyone cares) 60s - Stewart (iconic tartan) 70s - Cevert (Tricolore racing stripes) 80s - Senna (hard to argue with that) 90s - Hakkinen (great use of Finish/McLaren colours) 00s - Schumacher/Massa (both great use of National flag colours and looked fantastic in the Ferrari) 10s - Vettel (Abu Dhabi 2011 / Singapore 2013)

Eddie Irvine's Helmet when he was at Jaguar was the greatest of all time!

Both 2019 Renault drivers' helmets were arguably some of the best to ever grace an F1 grid. Nico's is both simple in colours, and bold in design. Instantly recognisable as his own. Then Dan's helmet; What needs to be said? It is unique like almost no other helmet has ever been. Colours that are almost unheard of in racing circles. A statement and a standpoint emblazoned on its side. It is an art peice more than a helmet livery. And despite your cries foul of drivers helmets being flashy and littered with sponsors, these two were almost entirely devoid of logos. You show those helmets to ANY casual F1 viewer and they'll know who's face is behind the visor, and that should mean something.

Nelson Piquet - end of story

I really like the Verstappen Dutch Lion. Honda Racing made a short video before the 2019 Japan Grand Prix to celebrate their accomplishments with RedBull Racing in F1.

I love Fernando's helmet not the most iconic but one of my favorites

I think Vettel's white helmet he's had at Ferrari is now pretty distinctive. Also I remember an interview with DC saying he was offered $1mil to sell his helmet space to sponsors but declined to keep the Scottish flag. My personal fave is Mika Hakkinen though 😀

Vettel’s white helmet with the German flag is also sick

If anyone is wondering, most are the comments are senna and vettel fans

Kimi's 2000s helmet was pretty iconic but if we're talking the most beautiful it's got to be Vettel's 2014 Monaco helmet. I mean it was just wow

70's - Lauda. Such a simple design, but the sheer overabundance of red and that small, centered, stark white/black logo of what could appear to be two crossed hammers was pretty intimidating. Of course, that decal was actually something far less terrifying, but if you didn't know what it represented and you only saw it attached to that helmet that was quickly approaching in your rear-view mirror, you might've taken it upon yourself to just go ahead and get out of the way. I'm not even necessarily a fan of that type of design (or lack thereof) but damn, did it ever work.

Kovalinen's angry birds one was awesome, Alonsos was a good shout, raikkonen had a very nice one in 2005,

Got to be Jean Alesi, about 1995, for me. Took the de Angelis design and improved it in my opinion!

12:21 did he say Mark Schumacher? Or is it me.

Chris Amon '60's Inspired in the film Gran Prix with James Gardener wearing it ( minus the kiwi on the side)

Danny Rics from 2019 season, so different from everyone els on the grid

They favored iconic drivers over spectacular designs, vettel’s helmet with the German colors and Nico hulkenberg’s helmets look staggering

Why are the helmets tinted? I'm new to understanding f1. Can someone please explain?

Greatest Helmet design? One answer:Ayrton Senna’s Helmet

I'm surprised that Montoya's helmet designs weren't mentioned. They hearkened, in their own way, to Mansell's arrow designs on his helmets, but with the Colombian colours instead - and when he went metallic? Wowzers.

One key you missed with Schumacher is that Ralfs helmet (yellow fading to red) is essentially an inversion of Michael's which was a really cool feature.

11:32 That's the first time I've ever heard anybody call that rule brilliant. Goes with some of the other hot takes in the video though, I suppose. I'm not sure how Hamilton's Senna-clone helmet that he has since stopped using can be chosen over the red helmet that Schumacher used for his entire career. And how is Niki Lauda's red and white helmet with the L design left out of the discussion entirely?

Who’s this Mark Schumacher guy he keeps mentioning?

i love alonso helmets, paticularly 2006, 2009, 2010-14, 2017, 2021, 2023

I know this is F1... but Valtenino Rossi wipes the floor with all of these when it comes to helmet liveries.

Fittipaldi helmet in the late 80's at CART was just the stuff of dreams

Vettel has to be on this list, he's got some amazing designs and keeps the simple base with the German stripes

Seb's helmet at Singaporeans gp 2019. Metal color Ferrari's logo looking sexy

Alesi had a cool one with rain drops on the top.

Hulkenbergs last helmet was epic.

As a long time racing fan I'll through in my 2¢. I like the older idea of the driver picking and staying with one design for his/her career. Trade maker that design so fans know at a quick glance and leave sponser logo's and decals to the sides of the car and drivers suit.

1960's: Lorenzo Bandini, Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, and the minimal, elegant like the driver dark blue with white lid from Jim Clark. 1970's: François Cevert, Ronnie Peterson, Jody Scheckter 1980's: Nelson Piquet, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda 1990's: David Coulthard, Nigel Mansell, 2000's: Felipe Massa. 2010's: Valteri Bottas

Raikkonen's helmet looks coolest, end of

well that was fairly predicatble, a few lesser known yet still awesome ones next time plz

This was a great idea, but I was executed poorly. There doesn’t need to be three three people on this panel, it should just be one person sitting in front of a camera going down their list like Hoonigan and Donut do it.

My favourites helmets are those of Jacky Ickx, Gilles Villeneuve and Ayrton Senna.

@Autosport How do I enter? The website takes me to a Subaru ride along. Thanks.

im gonna go ahead and mention Jarno Trulli's renault helmet (the silver one)

Yaaa. Idk about those 2 guys. Its more their favorite than "iconic" rate or whtvr

Even today when you go to a F1 event, you see helmets of Senna at sale and people buying it, it's incredibly iconic and memorable

Who's Mark Schumacher???

Alexander wurz is my favourite of all time.

tora takagi had the best helmet colours green & white/silver, looked great

The best racing helmet of all time was in MotoGP. Valentino Rossi’s Mugello helmet that just had a giant screaming picture of himself on the top so as you saw the bike going down the straight it looked like he was staring at the camera going AAAAAARRRGGH

Think Vettels ferrari helmet deserves to be the best of this decade, it is clean and easy to recognize.

Irvine and Jaguar? Kovalainen and Angry Birds? Ascari and his purple helmet? Coulthard and St. Andrews?

Never forget Heikki Kovalainen's Angry Birds helmet. That was badass.

60's - Stewart 70's - Lauda 80's - Senna 90's - Mika 00's - Montoya 10's - Hamilton or Vettel (Can't decide lol)

Schumacher‘s white helmet in the 90s

60s: Stewart 70s: Villeneuve, Cevert, Fittipaldi, Lauda, Peterson 80s: Piquet, Senna, Mansell, Belloff 90s: Barrichello, Coulthard, Frentzen, Hakkinen 00s: MSC Red (2000-2006), Montoya (2001-2004), Alonso (2003-2005), Hamilton (2007-2009), Raikkonen (2003-2006) 10s: Massa, Raikkonen (2012-2013), Rosberg (2014-2016), Vettel (2015 - Present), Hulkenberg (2017-2019)

I personally think:Eddie Cheever's helmet is the most beautiful helmet ever 😊

Think they should've split the 2010 period into 2010 to 2013 and 2014- present period. 2010-2013 had so many helmets to choose from given the fact that the drivers changed them almost every other race.

Michael Schumacher's helmet is iconic

Can people from the US be entered in the giveaway or only people from the UK

End of the season and that's what we get?!

I saw this and immediately went. Of course, everyone knows who number one is. Now I shall watch this and verify that they got that right. I have not screamed Senna more and am pleased that they got it right.

Modern helmets won't have the historic value of the older decades firstly due to the amount of changes as discussed but also because they need to be identifiable in a split second from the grandstands. I will go with Keke Rosbergs later designs with the block blue and yellow on white.

I love senna....thank you guys,.

Jody Scheckter had the best helmet in 70's. Bellof had the best in 80's. :D BTW i thought this was choose the best helmet not the most popular driver of certain era.