Max Verstappen will race within the colors of Brazil at this weekend’s Sao Paulo Grand Prix after revealing a particular helmet for the race.
The Purple Bull driver has changed his common pink, white and blue with the inexperienced, yellow and blue of the Brazilian flag, sharing the design on Instagram alongside the next caption: “Bringing some samba to São Paulo.”
It isn’t the primary time he is celebrated this race with a brand new helmet design. Final 12 months’s Sao Paulo helmet added gold and inexperienced accents to his common lion motif, with Verstappen describing the race as “particular” on the time.
There are many causes for that. His associate, Kelly Piquet, is the daughter of three-time world champion Nelson Piquet. So as to add to this, he counts Audi’s Brazilian driver Gabriel Bortoleto as a detailed good friend.
The circuit has additionally supplied a few of the most memorable moments of his profession.
In 2016, in solely his second season in F1, he completed third within the moist regardless of being sixteenth with 16 laps to go, in one of many first races to point out what he was able to.
He has since received at Interlagos 3 times, in 2019, 2023 and 2024. The final of these is commonly thought to be one of many best drives of his profession. He began seventeenth in heavy rain, received for the primary time in months and moved a lot nearer to his fourth world title.
Even final 12 months, when he began from the pitlane, he climbed to 3rd, ending lower than half a second behind a younger Kimi Antonelli in second.
Max Verstappen, Purple Bull Racing
Picture by: Mark Thompson – Getty Pictures
This 12 months’s go to comes with Verstappen in good type, having received in Mexico final weekend to take his sixth victory in that race. Antonelli has already clinched the title, however a win at a monitor the place Verstappen has so usually excelled can be one other robust consequence to take into the ultimate rounds of the season.
He’s not the one driver altering the design of his racing swimsuit for this coming weekend. Antonelli can even put on a particular helmet as a tribute to Ayrton Senna, whereas he and George Russell will put on purple fits for Mercedes throughout the weekend.
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