Each year Valentino Rossi wears a special tribute helmet to his home Grand Prix: Mugello - Italy. The Mugello helmets of Rossi always bear an illustrative message: a joke, self-irony, an event or even a phase Rossi is experiencing at that time. The revelation of the helmet is always a media spectacle, with dozens of journalists/photographer gathering around Rossi's pitbox to see what design he comes up with.
This year's special Mugello helmet is the Valentino Rossi Turtle helmet which features the famous turtle that Rossi usually wears on his visor which is also a tattoo on his body.
The helmet is called The turtle by his fans. Why Valentino Rossi chose a turtle? “Because I like the animal a lot. I had it as a mascot from when I was very young.” Another funny item on the helmet is an illustration of some small figures of what seem to be Marquez, Pedrosa and Lorenzo running away from The Doctor while he is trying to keep up with them. The illustration stands for the championship ranking where Rossi is falling behind more each race, with just one podium so far in the motoGP 2013 season (Qatar).
Funny about this helmet is that it gives such a strong contrast between on one side true slowness (turtle) and on the other side high speed (being on the helmet of a motogp rider).
Valentino's turtle is brought to life in this design by the legendary Aldo Drudi, the designer of all the Rossi helmets. This Valentino Rossi Limited edition helmet will become the next PistaGP model of Rossi to come out next to the PistaGP Elements, PistaGP Project 46 and the Valentino Rossi SoleLuna 2013. All PistaGP helmets are full carbon helmets, the extremely light-weight material we know from applications such as the formula 1.
This helmet will be taken into production after the SoleLuna 2013. Follow this blog to find out more!
Awesome helmet! Best one so far
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