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Felipe Massa in Interlagos: 100th GP for Scuderia Ferrari, 10th year F1

Marc-Thorsten Lenze — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:49:03 +0000

This weekend Felipe Massa will drive his 100th Grand Prix for Ferrari and his celebrate his 10th year in Formula-1.
For us this is a chance to honor him and celebrate with him: with a sepcial helmet design.

Not only since his accident in Hungary in 2009, Felipe and Schuberth have a very special partnership and as he received his new helmet this morning he promised to reserve a very special place for this helmet in his collection.

As always done by Jens Munser here is his special helmet design:

Alonsos Birthday Helmet 2011

Marc-Thorsten Lenze — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:47:25 +0000

This year we prepared a new helmet for Fernando Alonso´s 30th Birthday on 29th of July.

As he´s a real Motorbike and Ducati-Fan (he´s driving a custom-made Desmosedici RR) we provided him with a custom-made Schuberth SR1 at the Race in Hungary.

Here are the pictures of the red SR1 and we hope some more pictures on the track will follow ! Congratulations to making 3rd in Budapest and Happy Birthday !

KERS-Gloves for Oliver

Marc-Thorsten Lenze — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:10:40 +0000

With the introduction of the KERS-System to forumula-1 and implementation into Mercedes and Ferrari cars
special gloves have been supplied that protect from electrical shocks.

In this picture you can see Oliver, our race mechanic for Mercedes GP Petronas with these stylish accessory.
The car has now a “green light” to signal everyone they can touch car, rider – and also helmet.

Schuberth’s Racing Service review of the Year – Part 1

Oliver Huitema — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:19:01 +0000

During the upcoming weeks without Formula 1, nevertheless, we still want to share our love for racing with all of you. Therefore we had a look into our foto-archives and found some special pictures where we can tell you a short story about. All of these little and exciting moments of the year, we want to show you in our Schuberth Racing review of the previous year. Today we start with the first part of it – the GP of Japan in Suzuka:

Heavy rain in Japan was the reason for some confusion on Saturday morning and therefore the Qualifying was started on Sunday.

If it rains as strong as in Japan, a Formula-one helmet must be cleaned and dried again, up to the smallest opening for perfect comfort and the perfect look.

In Japan this was very important on Michael Schumacher’s helmet. His helmet appeared in a slightly changed design in Japan. On each side, new sponsors logos were gleaming on the helmet of the 7-times world champion. A reason for us to show to you a few nice pictures from Japan:

Because the decision occurred relatively at short notice to Japan GP, the logos could not become fully painted for the Race in the Far East.

Hence, we had to stick the logos on all 3 helmets of Michael on the sides. The result is worth a notice. We hope you like it, too. But it was a lot of work, always to stick new logos on it and remove them after each session for cleaning the gear. But this is what makes the Schuberth Racing Service so special. To give the products the special look. The logos became then fully painted for the last three races on all helmets.

Your Schuberth Racing team

Photoshoot in Abu Dhabi – SF1 special edition on the Track

Oliver Huitema — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:23:58 +0000

In Abu Dhabi, we had the opportunity to take some pictures with our new SF1 helmet on Track.

Enjoy the SF1 special edition of Rosberg & Massa for the Pirelli Tyre Testday:

The last corner in Abu Dhabi and in the background the Yas Marina Hotel.

A beautiful Stewardess of Etihad was happy to act as our model sitting behind the helmets on the starting grid.

The next one is also a nice one – face-to-face – Massa against Rosberg

And the last one: carbon fibre in detail

How do you like it?

We looking forward to the 2011 Season. Stay tuned…

Live from Abu Dhabi – Rosberg and Massa are testing the new Schuberth SF1

Oliver Huitema — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:50:03 +0000

At the moment our drivers Nico Rosberg (Mercedes GP) and Felipe Massa (Scuderia Ferrari) are running with the Schuberth F1 carbon helmet for the season 2011 in Abu Dhabi. On Saturday, both world champions Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso will use the newest helmet model from the Schuberth F1 manufacture in their racing cars. The new Schuberth formula one helmet is called “SF1 ″.

Furthermore, we are presenting two unusual design prototypes in Abu Dhabi. Nico goes with a glossy black helmet which was provided only with varnish. This shows the brilliant carbon optic. Felipe goes in a red SF1 – unusual for him. On both helmets the sponsors of both teams are also painted. However, next year the drivers will use probably their old helmet designs.

And for all Fans out there – here an impression of Felipe in his cockpit:

Formula-1 Results Japan

Oliver Huitema — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:48:42 +0000

1. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, Arai – 25 pts.

2. Marc Webber, Red Bull, Arai – 18 pts.

3. Fernando Alonso, Scuderia Ferrari, Schuberth – 15 pts.

Congratulations to all winners !

New SF1 off the track

Marc-Thorsten Lenze — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:57:56 +0000

Recently the prototype of our new Formula 1 Carbon Helmet SF1 was the star in a fairly another type of photo shoot. We think it also looks awesome off the track. But please get an idea of it yourself!

Welcome to the team, Cong Fu!

Marc-Thorsten Lenze — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:25:38 +0000

We are happy that we have been able to win the Chinese DTM pilot Cong Fu “Franky” Cheng for the circle of Schuberth race drivers. Cong Fu Cheng, in Europe also known as “Franky” to keep it simple, is a driver in the AMG Mercedes team and relies officially on our carbon helmet RF1 since last race at the Nürburgring. Franky ranks among the most successful motorsports people in China. He could already celebrate many achievements in different international Formula series und was part of the McLaren sponsorship program. In the DTM he is the first Chinese ever who started in the most popular European touring car series.

During a visit in our helmet manufactory Franky could take his new helmet directly out of the hands of our CEO Marcel Lejeune. Afterwards our Head of Production Christof Wobst showed and explained him how a motorcycle helmet is produced. Franky was impressed by how much manual work is needed.

We wish Franky a successful motorsport season 2010 and are happy to have such an excellent ambassador in China.

¡Feliz cumpleaños! – Flip-up helmet C3 for Fernando Alonso’s Birthday

Oliver Huitema — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:27:58 +0000

On Thursday, Fernando Alonso celebrated his 29th Birthday at the Hungaroring in Budapest. Our Schuberth Racing Service gave a small gift to the Spanish Formula 1 World Champion. My colleague Sven handed the gift to Fernando Alonso on Thursday morning in his Ferrari motorhome. The new Schuberth C3 flip-up helmet in original Formula 1 Design was painted by Uffe. The Finnish helmet designer gave him the painted design on the C3 as a present.

Our Spanish driver was so pleased that he wanted to try the helmet even in the first practice session on Friday. And on his Ducati. It looks like we have made somebody happy. Here are the photos of the helmet:

Last but not least we have to say:

Happy Birthday from all of us, Fernando!