It was the first race-worn helmet of Lawson’s to be put up for sale, according to Turners, who has sponsored Lawson’s racing career since he was 16. <\/p>\n
The Bell HP77 helmet had been personally signed by Lawson and remained in its race-worn condition, including visor tear-offs. <\/p>\n
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The helmet had been signed by Lawson. Source: Turners (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
It featured the pink and white design used by Lawson during the 2025 season, alongside M\u0101ori-inspired motifs, a silver fern and the Southern Cross.<\/p>\n
As of Monday afternoon, bidding for the helmet on Turners’ website had reached $21,000. <\/p>\n
The auction was due to close at 7pm on September 13. <\/p>\n
It was not the first piece of Lawson memorabilia to go up for auction. In March, Turners auctioned off a signed miniature replica of one of his helmets, while Lawson’s first car \u2014 a 2000 Subaru Forester \u2014 sold for $35,300 in a charity auction last year. <\/p>\n
The full-sized helmet now up for auction was worn during what was then Lawson’s best Formula 1 weekend. <\/p>\n
He secured a career-best third in a chaotic qualifying session around the Baku City street circuit, lining up behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Williams’ Carlos Sainz. <\/p>\n
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Liam Lawson pictured wearing the helmet at the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n
Lawson went on to finish fifth in the race, his best F1 result at the time, before matching that result at this year’s Monaco Grand Prix. <\/p>\n
His defensive drive in Baku earned him the tongue-in-cheek “New Zealand Minister of Defence” nickname.<\/p>\n
Lawson has enjoyed another strong season<\/a> in Formula 1, including a recent return to Red Bull<\/a> as a stand-in for the injured Isack Hadjar.<\/p>\n He is ninth in the world drivers’ standings on 51 points \u2014 the highest scoring driver outside of the top four teams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A race helmet worn by Kiwi F1 driver Liam Lawson during one of the standout performances of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[292314,286299,111,139,69,291170,292315,213],"class_list":["post-592980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-4-september-2026","tag-monza","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pirelli-gran-premio-ditalia-2026","tag-rb22","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592980","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=592980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}