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The Snell Memorial Foundation is a nonprofit organization created to provide a high quality standard of safety for helmets.Founded in 1957, the foundation is named after William "Pete" Snell, a popular sports car racer who died in 1956 of head injuries he received when the racing helmet he wore failed to protect his head.
Many of the album's lyrics were inspired by Hamilton's year long relationship with actress Winona Ryder in 2003. [4] Hamilton has since commented that Ryder was a fan of Helmet and that she has heard the album, saying in 2007 that she didn't like their next album Monochrome because "it didn’t sound like her favorite song on Aftertaste, or her favorite song on even Size Matters."
Senna's nephew Bruno wore a modified version of his helmet design (a yellow helmet with a green and blue stripe) during his Formula One career. The stripes were shaped after an S rather than being straight, there was a green stripe under the chin, and there was a blue rounded rectangle near the top.
F1 driver Ayrton Senna died after a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy on May 1, 1994. Senna's crash was one of two fatal accidents that occurred that weekend on the track.
Hamilton wore a purple helmet in 2021 before switching to a yellow design last year, the colour he sported as a junior and in his first years in F1.
Lewis Hamilton raises Ayrton Senna's helmet, offered by the latter's family on matching the Brazilian driver's record tally of pole positions at the 2017 Canadian Grand Prix. Kevin Magnussen is the 106th and latest first-time polesitter, having secured pole position at the 2022 São Paulo Grand Prix .
Jeff Gordon's racing helmet. A racing helmet is a form of protective headgear worn by racing car and rally drivers. Motor racing has long been known to be an exceptionally risky sport: [1] sudden deceleration forces on the head can easily occur if a racing car loses control at the very high speeds of competitive motor racing or the rough terrain experienced in rallying. [1]
In his karting years, Rosberg had a white helmet with a blue stripe, then, in Formula One, Sid Mosca (who designed helmets for Brazilian drivers including Ayrton Senna, Rubens Barrichello and Emerson Fittipaldi) painted Rosberg's helmet white with a blue circle on the top, and the stripe was divided into a large blue rectangle covering the ...