\u201cThis is incredibly exciting for our family. We\u2019ve followed Liam for a long time. We never miss a qualifier or race,\u201d Ebbs said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea that he\u2019ll be wearing my design is just surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liam Lawson has revealed his unique helmet, designed by Kiwi fan Ian Ebbs.<\/p>\n
Lawson said it had been awesome to see the design brought to life.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s bold, full of energy and colour, and really captures so much of what I love about New Zealand,\u201d Lawson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pumped to wear it on track and carry a piece of Kiwi creativity with me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was blown away by the effort and creativity from fans all around New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cChoosing just one winner wasn\u2019t easy, but the final design really stood out and felt perfect for Singapore.<\/p>\n
\u201cWearing it on track will make the weekend even more special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ebbs, 46, said he worked as a company director but didn\u2019t have a background in design.<\/p>\n
Commenting on his inspiration behind the design, he said the artwork reflected the New Zealand landscape, golf, Kiwiana, and Aotearoa itself, capturing Lawson\u2019s pride and personality, as well as additional input from his children.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spent a bit of time just looking at the helmets that he\u2019d had in the past and the kind of stuff he liked,\u201d Ebbs said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI settled on pink, blue and white as the main colours, since Liam often uses them on his helmets.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first, I thought of Lightning McQueen, but I ended up focusing on his new love for golf.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started picturing a kiwi bird in a pink backwards cap driving a golf cart \u2013 I wanted a fun, cartoon-like style that evolved into something more layered, with elements like ferns, rolling hills, clouds, kiwifruit and the shape of New Zealand.\u201c<\/p>\n
The original helmet design by Ian Ebbs.<\/p>\n
He said a stop at a dairy with his son had sparked the idea to enter the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy son is super into Formula One, and he saw a poster for a Red Bull competition, and was like, \u2018How do we enter that?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I just said, \u2018We\u2019ll give it a go\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The original helmet designed by Ian Ebbs.<\/p>\n
The custom helmet will be officially unveiled in the lead-up to the Singapore Grand Prix race weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is incredibly exciting for our family. We\u2019ve followed Liam for a long time. We never miss a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1975,46729,4487,10408,35142,35140,501,33965,19552,9517,47529,10813,47526,5420,194,47525,20409,3514,111,10511,139,69,9615,47527,47528,3512,312,9739,213,61,11744,102],"class_list":["post-56614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-at","tag-carry","tag-christchurch","tag-creativity","tag-debut","tag-debuts","tag-design","tag-designed","tag-driver","tag-fans","tag-fatherofthree","tag-grand","tag-helmet","tag-hes","tag-kiwi","tag-lawson","tag-liam","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newest","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-piece","tag-prix","tag-pumped","tag-racing","tag-says","tag-singapore","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-upcoming","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}