Nick Heidfeld's one-off helmet design for his home Grand Prix has been revealed. With the public given the opportunity to create the livery online, competition organisers had the tough job of selecting a winner from over 9,000 entries.
With Heidfeld running with a unique helmet design at the Nürburgring in the same way Jenson Button did at Silverstone last time out, the winning entry was that of Hungary's Tamás Simon, whose globular outline design will be seen over the course of the next Grand Prix weekend. "This helmet stood out from all the rest," said BMW driver Heidfeld. "In fact, as soon as I saw it, I thought that it was a likely winner - my immediate impression was just 'Wow!'"
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| The design will be sported by Nick at the Nürburgring |
Professional helmet design Jens Munster was also impressed by the pattern. "Tamás Simon has come up with a great idea," he explained. "I've never seen a helmet design like this before, either for a racing driver or for an ordinary motorcyclist; the design is made up exclusively of circles which are so subtly arranged that you only become aware of this on closer inspection. The design has clearly been influenced by technology; with its linked spherical shapes, it is highly reminiscent of the arms and joints of industrial robots. For me as a professional, this design must have been one of the hardest to realise."
"I didn't start out with any preconceptions," said Tamás of his winning design. "I simply took my inspiration from the situation, I guess I was just feeling especially creative that day. I wanted to come up with something that had a system behind it - that set me thinking about variations on a circular theme."
After next Sunday's German Grand Prix the helmet will be auctioned off to the public through German television broadcaster RTL, with all donations going to the 'Wir helfen Kindern' (literally translated - 'We help children') charity.
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