F1 helmets

[Steven Roy]

Not Piquet

[Dare]

Not Piquet

looks a little like a different style Lauda helmet,anyone
else care to guess

[Steven Roy]

I can see why you would think Lauda but it's not Niki.

[Dare]

Peterson

[Steven Roy]

Not Peterson

[Chameleon]

Marc Surer.

[Steven Roy]

Marc Surer it is 

I had never thought about it before but I wonder if he took the two stripes from Siffert's helmet.

Below is a pic of him in more familiar surroundings

[Dare]

may be fairly easy Steven

[Steven Roy]

Tom Pryce.

When his father went to watch him race for the first time he could tell which car he was driving because he along with a few other drivers had a plain white helmet so he painted 5 black vertical stripes so his dad would recognise him.

I was watching a vid about him on youtube a couple of weeks ago and unexpectedly in the middle of it it showed his fatal accident at Kyalami.  It is probably the goriest racing accident I have ever seen as he hit a marshall running across the track at something like 150mph.  The picture quality was not good but it made an awful site.  My first thought was about the priest who got on the track at Silverstone a few years ago or the disgruntled Merc employee who got on at Hockenheim.  To imagine the effect of an F1 car hitting a person with modern TV quality brodcast live to hundreds of millions of people.  It is horrifying.

There was a book published in the summer about three young British drivers who were killed at that time.  Pryce, Tim Brice who was on the same plane as Graham Hill and Roger Williamson who died in a fiery crash at Zandvoort.  This was the accident that David Purley was awarded the George medal for his rescue attempt.

Probably a bit too much detail for a helmet question.

[Dare]

I ran across it by accident a few years ago,it's
one of the most disturbing vids I've ever viewed.

Makes you wonder how good Pryce,Williamson,and Brice
would have been,doesn't it