Special helmet VR46, Dedication to # 58

A special helmet to dedicate tribute to the late Marco Simoncelli, Valentino Rossi has been used, since the third practice session. However, recently Rossi could explain the details of his helmet to the number of media. Previously, the manager Rossi, Davide Brivio said that Rossi will use a special helmet, on a twitter account last Friday. Now, the drivers themselves that will explain everything.

AGV helmet design and special paint, combined between Rossi's helmet with the helmet's previous Super Sic, which has two red stripes at the top-front of his helmet. Rossi purposely did not want to plagiarize the entire design Simoncelli helmet, because he thinks only the right to wear Simoncelli own design.

"I love the helmet. I've talked to Aldo (Drudi) and told him that I wanted to pay homage to Sic. Most importantly, a helmet Marco has a total of two strips of red and we do not want to trace them in accordance with his, "said Rossi, as reported by MCN, Sunday (06/11/2011). "We chose to combine these two helmets and the results are very good. This particular helmet has a significance and meaning that is very emotional for me, "close the seven-times MotoGP champions.

Problem helmet, was not only The Doctor who want to convey through the media respect the helmet. Although not as extreme Rossi, Cal Crutchlow is also at least do a little modification to the helmet. Crutchlow added the writing on the back of his Arai helmet, which reads 'Ciao Super Sic'.