Location: Mugello, Italy
Date: Sunday May 31, 2008
Race position: 1st
Valentino Rossi ‘My Face’ helmet from Mugello 2008:
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This is the now infamous helmet that Valentino Rossi wore for the Mugello round of the 2008 MotoGP season.
Until Misano became a MotoGP circuit in 2007, Mugello was basically the ‘home race’ for Valentino Rossi and it always attracts thousands of rabid MotoGP fans and the circuit pulses with an electric atmosphere.
Every year Valentino has a special helmet designed for the Mugello race (past helmets have included the ‘Heart‘ design in 2007, and the beautiful ‘Milo Manara‘ design in 2006), but for 2008 he pulled out all the stops and wore arguably his most famous Aldo Drudi designed helmet to date – the ‘Double Take’ or ‘My Face’ helmet.
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Rossi´s Aldo Drudi designed AGV helmet featured a picture of his own face, displaying a highly excited or shocked expression, which Rossi hoped would give fans a sense of how it feels to ride the Yamaha M1 around the undulating Mugello circuit at speeds in excess of 320 kh/h. Rossi also wanted to give the fans a sense of what it felt like braking a MotoGP bike at the end of Mugello’s long, 330km/h front straight.
Rossi’s face is positioned on the top of the helmet above the visor, so when he put his head down, the face came into full view. Talking about how the idea for the helmet came about, Rossi said:
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