PICTURES: Rossi's Mugello helmet.
As is now traditional for his home grand prix, MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi is sporting a new helmet design this weekend at Mugello.
The Italian's usual sun and moon design has been replaced by a comic book type layout, featuring some of The Doctor's favourite characters.
As is now traditional for his home grand prix, MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi is sporting a new helmet design this weekend at Mugello.
The Italian's usual sun and moon design has been replaced by a comic book type layout, featuring some of The Doctor's favourite characters.
"My new helmet design is by a famous Italian cartoonist called Milo Manara," explained Valentino. "He has drawn a kind of mythical story of my life, with some of my heroes like Steve McQueen, Enzo Ferrari and Jim Morrison, with other characters like my dog Guido, Osvaldo the chicken and lots of beautiful women! I really like it and Milo is somebody I have admired for a long time."
Rossi took the new helmet to his first front row start of the season after finishing third, behind Ducati team-mate's Sete Gibernau and Loris Capirossi, in Saturday's qualifying session.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
