The race is on, and we've turned this episode of the Race F1 podcast over to you,

the listener, to answer the questions you've asked about Formula One, past and present.

While we're still waiting impatiently for the Grand Prix season to get going,

there's plenty to talk about as always,

and we've got a great mix of contemporary topics

and thought-provokers from the past to delve into.

I'm Ed Straw, and my guests with all of the answers are Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes.

Scott, how goes things in Sweden?

I see you've got your patriotic football shirt on.

Yeah, all good, actually. On the subject of Sweden and patriotism, I'm actually in the process of coming up with

a crash helmet design for my rising interest in esports. Plus, I've always wanted to have sort of my own design just in case

I ever do get involved in real world racing again and have my own. And I've decided because

blue and yellow have always been my competition colours, way back going back to when I was eight

or nine years old and had my first cart. So blue and yellow has always been really cool for me. Obviously being out here, it's the colours of Sweden, so it works really well. So I'm

going to have, basically what I want to get done is a Ronnie Peterson style crash helmet design,

so a metallic blue base with some sort of golden yellow pinstriping and old style sort of block letters on the side. So yeah, so that is,

there's a genuine bit of news for the podcast from Sweden there. Excellent. We look forward to

seeing that design. My helmet design when I was racing was white with lots of scuff marks from

roll cages and that kind of thing because I was quite tall.

I took up a lot of spacing cars. I was very often just sort of glancing it on roll cages and

that kind of thing. Fortunately, never did that when crashing. Mark Hughes, did you have a helmet

design when you were when you were racing or were helmets not not compulsory back then?

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