Valtteri Bottas to use Mika Hakkinen-inspired helmet at Monaco Grand Prix
Valtteri Bottas will wear a hel꧟met design inspired by Mika Hakkinen’s old F🌳ormula 1 design during this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix.
F1 drivers often introduce special helmet designs for the Monte Carlo race and this year Bottas, Stoffel Vandoorne and Brendon Hartley have unveiled new designs featuring a Monaco theme, while Charles Leclerc will contest his home race with a helmet based on his late father Herve’s that includes a trib💞ute to Jules Bianchi.
Valtteri Bottas will wear a helmet design 🗹inspired by Mika Hakkinen꧙’s old Formula 1 design during this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix.
F1 drivers often introduce special helmet designs for the Monte Carlo race and this year Bottas, Stoffel Vandoorne and Brendon Hartley have unveiled new designs featuring a Monaco theme, while Charles Leclerc will contest his home race with a helmet based on his late father Herve’s that includes a tribute to Jules Bianchi.&n✱bsp;
Bottas revealed the design - which features fellow countryman Hakkinen’s classic triple-shades of blue above a🔯 white🗹 base - ahead of opening practice on Thursday morning.
The Mercedes driver said the helmet p🍒ays tribute to Hakkinen’s sole Monaco GP win from 20 years ago, the same year he won the first of two worl🤪d championship titles.
“He won here 20 years ago exactly a♌nd that year he wo🦋n the title,” Bottas explained.
“So, I wanted to pay a tribute. I respect him as a driver, as aﷺ guy, and I always loved the paint as well."
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