{"id":19345,"date":"2013-09-21T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19345"},"modified":"2013-09-21T08:00:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T12:00:46","slug":"f1-considering-ban-on-helmet-livery-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-considering-ban-on-helmet-livery-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 considering ban on helmet livery changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The days of constantly-changing helmet livery designs in formula one could be coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, world champion Sebastian Vettel &#8211; who regularly changes the design of his helmet &#8211; is wearing a livery that shines like a disco ball under the Singapore lights.<\/p>\n<p>Even Lewis Hamilton, who usually fields the same Senna-like yellow helmet, is showing off a special white design this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>But the constant chopping-and-changing is set to be stopped by F1&#8217;s governing body.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper reports that the F1 technical committee is discussing a ban, so that &#8211; as in the past &#8211; television and trackside spectators can pick out their favourite driver by reliably spotting his customary helmet design.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondents Frank Schneider and Nicola Pohl report from Singapore that the ban would allow drivers to make only one helmet colour change per season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the constantly-new helmets are banned, I think that&#8217;s good,&#8221; said triple world champion Niki Lauda, who wore an all-red helmet throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even I can hardly tell the drivers apart,&#8221; the great Austrian, now Mercedes&#8217; team chairman, admitted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days of constantly-changing helmet livery designs in formula one could be coming to an end. This weekend, world champion Sebastian Vettel &#8211; who regularly changes the design of his helmet &#8211; is wearing a livery that shines like a disco ball under the Singapore lights. Even Lewis Hamilton, who usually fields the same Senna-like &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,4648,154,598,2130],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19346,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345\/revisions\/19346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}