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George Russell reveals a Juan Pablo Montoya inspired helmet for 1000th race

George Russell reveals a Juan Pablo Montoya inspired helmet for 1000th race

11-04-2019 17:00
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George Russell has revealed a Juan Pablo Montoya-inspired helmet for the 1000th Formula 1 race in China this weekend. Drivers and teams are all celebrating the iconic moment for Formula 1 by adding bits to their helmets and cars. Russell has decided to change his design and his helmet will be split with half of it being his normal colours and the other half being the colours of Juan Pablo Montoya.  

“When I first started karting I copied the helmet of my brother when he was karting before,” Russell said via RaceFans.net.

“And it was inspired, his helmet design, from Montoya. So I decided it would be pretty cool.

“It was Montoya from when he was at Williams as well. I only found out about eight years ago that the helmet design I used when I started karting was inspired by Montoya when he was at Williams.

“As Montoya’s a bit of a Williams legend, he’s one of my favourite F1 drivers of all time – just his sort of character, the way he approached the racing, everything, he was a driver who you would enjoy watching.

“So I thought it would be something nice to go half-half this weekend.

“I’ve met him once,” Russell added, “that was last year. Hopefully, he likes it.”

Russell will hope that his helmet design can improve Williams' speed this weekend!