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The color schemes featured on the crash helmets of race car drivers are one of the best ways to recognize them when they're out on the circuit. The designs seen on the helmets of the most successful drivers have become classics.
Painting helmets became far more popular in the '70s, especially with the introduction of full-face crash helmets. Before that, drivers used to wear plain, generally unpainted, crash helmets that offered very limited protection.
Nowadays, fans might even find some F1 drivers' helmets a little too conservative in unsophisticated, solid colors. In fact, it's an unwritten rule that bike racers' helmet designs are infinitely more imaginative than their four-wheeled cousins. Yet, on the other hand, sometimes they bikers take it a bit too far!
Here's our Top 10 list of the most legendary helmet designs featured on F1 drivers' headgear.
10 Jackie Stewart
Scottish Jackie Stewart, world champion in 1969-1971-1973. His white Bell helmet carried a simple strip of Scottish tartan.
Painting helmets became far more popular in the '70s, especially with the introduction of full-face crash helmets. Before that, drivers used to wear plain, generally unpainted, crash helmets that offered very limited protection.
Nowadays, fans might even find some F1 drivers' helmets a little too conservative in unsophisticated, solid colors. In fact, it's an unwritten rule that bike racers' helmet designs are infinitely more imaginative than their four-wheeled cousins. Yet, on the other hand, sometimes they bikers take it a bit too far!
Here's our Top 10 list of the most legendary helmet designs featured on F1 drivers' headgear.
10 Jackie Stewart
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