Lewis Hamilton 2022 Bell HP77 Race-Used Helmet

The Bell HP77 worn by Lewis Hamilton during the 2022 Formula 1 season, used in competition at the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest and at the French Grand Prix in Le Castellet: a podium in Hungary, second place in France behind team-mate Russell.

The on-track use is documented rather than asserted. At the front of the shell, above the visor on the right, a small lifted fragment of film appears in the official Getty Images photographs taken at the circuit. More decisively, the carbon fibre weave, a pattern unique to each shell and as unrepeatable as a fingerprint, matches the weave visible in the images from both races.

Race-used Hamilton helmets carrying a documented photomatch are among the rarest objects in Formula 1 collecting, and this is the first example with a traceable pedigree to enter a Collecto collection. It stands at the intersection of technical craft, sporting history and the iconography of the sport's most successful driver.