Ricciardo unveils legendary new helmet design with important message

Daniel Ricciardo has made another legendary move ahead of his debut season with McLaren, sending an important message with his helmet design.

Daniel Ricciardo said peace out to Renault. (Photo by Florent Gooden – Pool/Getty Images)

Hats off to Daniel Ricciardo’s 2021 helmet design.

The Australian F1 star has unveiled the head protector he’ll be donning in his first season at McLaren and it’s all about sending a message to

“I’m stoked with it. The theme of this year was ‘all good, always’,” Ricciardo explained.

“(It’s) two-fold really. It’s always going to be all right, the sunshine will shine. You may have your ups and downs but it’s about trying to be positive with anything you do.

“The second part is, no matter where you come from, what walk of life, race, religion, whichever, it’s ‘all good, always’. Everyone’s cool. We’re accepting. Everybody love everybody.”

Ricciardo seems all good as he prepares to begin his partnership with new teammate Lando Norris and deliver on McLaren’s expectations of topping the teams in the battle for positions third to seven.

But the 31-year-old has loftier goals after signing a two-year contract to join McLaren from Renault.

Daniel Ricciardo has unveiled his new helmet design for the 2021 season.

The helmet also features the logo of Mind, one of Australia’s leading mental health service providers.

“I think this is my best chance to achieve what I’ve said all along is the goal,” Ricciardo told Fairfax.

“I didn’t ever want to get to F1 just to get to F1 – I wanted to be world champion, and I still do. McLaren, with the way they’re progressing, feels like the best chance for me to be able to do that, maybe the best chance I’ve had.

“You never know in this sport, but I’m confident I’m in the right place. Can I sit here and say that I can fight for a world championship next year? Who knows, but I feel confident that I’m in the right place to give myself a good shot at it.

“You can see McLaren’s pathway to getting better, and I feel McLaren is ready for me to be one of the elements they haven’t had to help them win.”

Ricciardo refuses to give up hope of realising his world title ambitions and has no regrets on the path his career has taken to this point.

“I came to Red Bull the year after they’d won four straight championships with Seb (Vettel), but the rules changed for 2014 and all of a sudden Mercedes was dominating,” he said.

“And sure, Renault did start to come good the longer I was there, and we were arguably our strongest in my time there right at the end of last year. But you can’t live like that.

“I’ve never sung the ‘woe is me’ sad song, that I was in the right places but never at the right time. If I never raced another race and this was it, then I’d still look back at it and say that I’d won races, I’d won at Monaco, I’d had success over a long time. You can’t get caught up in playing those games in your mind.”