Nico Hulkenberg, Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen every have completely different causes for sporting particular helmets at this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix.
Nico Hulkenberg’s Dutch Grand Prix helmet
Hulkenberg will public sale his newest helmet design after this weekend’s race with a purpose to elevate cash for analysis into treating lymphoma, a sort of most cancers which impacts white blood cells. He’ll donate the cash to Lymph&Co, a charity backed by the prince consort of the Netherlands, Prince Bernard.
“A particular place that deserves a particular helmet,” mentioned Hulkenberg on social media. “I’m additionally delighted to be working with Prince Bernhard and his basis LymphCo this weekend.
“The muse has been dedicated to bettering analysis towards lymphoma for years. Nice undertaking, which I’m completely satisfied to assist and I’ll donate my precise race helmet to Bernhard and Lymph&Co on Sunday.”
His Haas workforce are additionally carrying Lymph&Co’s logos this weekend.
Valtteri Bottas’ Dutch Grand Prix helmet
Bottas, a motorcycle fanatic whose associate Tiffany Cromwell is an expert bicycle owner, is celebrating his two-wheeled ardour this weekend with a helmet bearing the lyrics of the 1978 Queen hit Bicycle Race.
“Netherlands. Bicycles. I do wish to experience my bicycle,” he declared on social media. Biking is enormously fashionable within the Netherlands, the place there are famously extra bikes (23 million) than folks (17.7 million).
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Max Verstappen’s Dutch Grand Prix helmet
Is that this the helmet which this weekend’s winner will put on? There’s a good probability, as Verstappen has cemented his place within the house crowd’s affections by successful all three Dutch grands prix because it returned to the calendar in 2021.
He started sporting his house helmet earlier within the 12 months, which incorporates a suitably orange design and a lion motif. He additionally integrated the latter into his traditional design.
“It’s related to the nation, the lion, so I like that already,” he defined. “I carried out that into my design with my emblem as nicely on the highest and it labored out rather well. It simply stayed on the helmet and it’s one thing that you just develop into as nicely.”
Requested what attributes he wants from a lion on the observe Verstappen answered: “Kill your prey?”
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