Mexican F1 2024 Grand Prix: all of the special helmets that the drivers will be using, plus some interesting news!

The Mexican 2024 F1 Grand Prix brings us many new features. Almost all of the drivers chose to make a special edition of their helmets for this grand prix. Some cars were also modified, and one of them brought back the limited edition liveries. This weekend is going to be Fernando Alonso's 400th race start, that's why he decided to do a super special helmet for the occasion; which we'll be talking about in this article. Also, the rookies raced in FP1 on friday, 25 october. Andrea Kimi Antonelli, the italian 18 year old who's Mercedes' future F1 driver, replaced Lewis Hamilton to test the car and drive just as he did in Monza a few months earlier, ending P12. He wasn't the only one to do it though. Patricio O'Ward (the mexican McLaren F1 reserve driver) raced too, as well as Oliver Bearman (who in this case replaced Charles Leclerc and raced for Ferrari), Robert Shwartzman and Felipe Drugovich. But let's start talking about those helmets!

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CHARLES LECLERC: his special helmet for the mexican grand prix keeps his iconic colours, red and white. Our boy likes to remind everyone of his origins (indeed, those are the monegasque flag's colours!) and this helmet has some resemblance with the 2024 helmet Charles wore on the Monaco Grand Prix. They added some teeth on the front to make it look like a mexican skull, and they put some symmetrical mexican designs all over the helmet. On top of the helmet, the word "Mexico" shines.

CARLOS SAINZ: As for Charles' teammate, Carlos, they made a pretty similar design. Although the red stands out on this helmet, the mexican designs are very similar to Charles'. But they're not quite the same. They added some flowers and made his 55 really big and visible! Painted on top of it, we can see a mexican skull. And on the back, a chili.

FERNANDO ALONSO: For his 400 race starts, Alonso decided to put all of his racing memories on the helmet as a cinematographic film. His surname was designed to make it look like a four hundred, highlighting the A and the O's in gold and painting the rest of the letters white.

SERGIO PEREZ (CHECO): Born in Guadalajara, the mexican chose a simple but cool design for his home Grand prix's helmet. The Red Bull colours are all there; blue, red and yellow. On top of it, we can see the mask of a luchador. The luchadores are mexican wrestlers who exhibit in teatrical and acrobatic numbers. And then, a "never give up" written on the back.

ZHOU GUANYU: the chinese driver's helmet is designed to make it look like a luchador's mask. With some green wings on both sides and a chinese word (or sentence, I'm not sure) written on it, this helmet unites both the mexican and the chinese culture. Red, white and green are the dominant colours on this helmet. The driver's name ZHOU is written on the back of the helmet.

FRANCO COLAPINTO: for the mexican and brazilian GP's, the argentinian driver Franco Colapinto decided to pay homage to Carlos Reutemann (a historic argentinian F1 driver who won 12 Grands Prix and was governor of the Argentine province of Santa Fe). The argentinian flag, the Duracell logo, Bizarrap's logo (a famous argentinian DJ and producer, who's Franco's major sponsor) and some yellow patterns are what caracterize this helmet.

PIERRE GASLY: The french driver decided to give his fans an opportunity and challenged them a few weeks ago. They had to try and design his helmet for the mexican Grand Prix. So, this helmet was designed by a fan (@draw.leaaa on instagram). It looks like a mexican skull, and has a lot of mini details. Some flowers, some leaves, a skull. "Viva Mexico" written on it. Two little dogs with mexican sombreros, representing the driver's poodle, Simba.

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These were all of the drivers' helmets for this Mexican Grand Prix. I would also like to show you Williams' special livery for this Grand Prix, which is a leap into the past. The team brought back their original colours, making the car look classy and beautiful. As you can see from the pic I put down here, Duracell is always one of their main sponsors and the team made part of the car look like a battery! This entire livery was also made to highlight their other sponsor for this Grand Prix, that is Mercado Libre, who teamed up with Franco Colapinto (and made him act in a video) since the brand is argentinian.

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