ME AND MY LID

The design that Lewis used while winning his fifth championship came from the shortlist of his 2017 competition entries

Lewis Hamilton’s 2018 helmet

For the 2017 season I ran a competition on Instagram for my fans to submit helmet designs. It had over 8,000 entries when it closed and so many of the designs were so great that it was difficult to choose between them.

So for 2018 I decided to use one of the entries on the shortlist, which hadn’t won in ’17. Like my racing hero Ayrton Senna, the designer is a Brazilian – Felipe Torres.

It’s a very simple, clean, minimalist design, which helps make the helmet very distinctive through the halo.

Up close there are some nice details such as the layering on the stripes. The addition of my signature and a cross to the carry-over design elements from the 2017 helmet, such as the ‘Still I Rise’ quote which matches my tattoo, make for a great helmet.