As one of three British drivers on the grid at Silverstone this weekend, McLaren’s Lando Norris has unveiled a special helmet that he will sport for the British Grand Prix, with the livery designed by a six-year-old fan.
Norris pulled off he covers of his new helmet design on his Twitch channel, showing off the lid embellished with crayon drawings from a young fan, picked from “probably thousands” of submissions to a competition run by Norris, according to the McLaren driver.
“I love it – it’s very original,” said Norris during the unveil. “We went through a huge amount of designs, probably thousands of them… I wanted to go with something that was just very original, something I wasn’t used to, something that probably means a lot to the person, and it means a lot to me. It reminds me of myself when I was younger, designing helmets, drawing away when I was five or six years old.”