When it comes to being superstitious about their helmets, not many can claim to be more so that MP Motorsport’s Alessandro Giusti.
The Frenchman brings two different helmets to the track each weekend and recently we caught up with to talk about his newest design, and the reasons behind it.
“My new helmet is basically full of blue, because my car is blue, but blue is a colour I have liked. I stayed with orange as well, that I had from go karts, it was an easy choice honestly.
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“Everyone in karts had blue, white and red so I chose orange to have a difference to the others.
“To be quite specific, the change of blue, the front is quite dark compared to the back which is quite light. We also have the W design on the helmets.
“We also have the Sandro design, which is on all my helmets, every helmet I have this on the back and it’s a Stilo helmet.
“Adrien Paviot designed this helmet, he has done some F1 drivers helmets as well like Pierre Gasly and Charles Leclerc. It’s a good helmet, he has done all my helmets since I started racing. I go to him and tell him what I want and then he will design it.
“I’m French, so blue, white, and red on the helmet was good. But I changed the red to orange, to be a bit different so my dad could see me on track and a bit of white, because it’s cool.
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“I really like it. If there is no W it looks a bit empty, so we put it there, and then the French flag is always on my helmet as well because it’s my country.
“The Sandro, we wanted to have something in go karts that is only on my helmet, and we found it and you can even see it on my old helmets.
“Honestly, I don’t know if I would add another design. Maybe a space shuttle one, a special one, but this year I am happy with the two helmets I have.
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“The other helmet I have is only light blue, dark blue and white, but this new one has a bit of orange and more white, that’s pretty much it.
“I’m a bit superstitious with my helmets. Last year it was one helmet for the Saturday, because the best helmet was the one for Saturday and the other helmet for the Sundays for the races.”